Aylesbury Vale Parkway railway station

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Aylesbury Vale Parkway

Location

Place

Aylesbury

Local authority

Aylesbury Vale

Operations

Managed by

Chiltern Railways

Platforms in use

History

Key dates

Opened 2009

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Aylesbury Vale Parkway railway station is a station soon to be built to serve the Berryfields and Weedon Hill housing development in the north of Aylesbury. The station will be served by Chiltern Railways. Opening is currently proposed for 2009, with construction starting in 2007.

The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister announced in April 2006 that it would be providing £8.17 million for track and signalling improvements to the existing line, which is currently only used to carry freight. The line is part of the old Metropolitan Line which connected London and Aylesbury with the Midlands and North.

A further £2.8 million will be invested by Chiltern Railways' owners Laing Rail and £1m from Buckinghamshire County Council.

The station is anticipated to provide parking for 400 cars and link in to existing public transport bus services along the A41 corridor.

Although at present the new station has been agreed to extend the Marylebone to Aylesbury line by a further two and a quarter miles, there has been talk of extending the line beyond the Parkway station to Quainton, Bletchley and Oxford using portions of the former Varsity Line. Whether or not this will happen is still unknown.

The anticipated service interval will be train hourly off-peak to London Marylebone via Amersham. During peak periods there will be up to three trains per hour to London Marylebone.