Buckinghamshire Railway Centre
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Buckinghamshire Railway Centre is a railway museum operated by the Quainton Railway Society Ltd. at Quainton Road railway station, in the far depths of "Metro-land", about 5 miles (8 Km) west of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire.
The site is divided into two halves which are joined by two foot-bridges, one of which provides wheelchair access. Each side has a demonstration line with various workshop buildings as well as museum buildings. Separating the two halves is a Network Rail goods line, formerly the mainline used by the Great Central Railway and the Metropolitan Railway via the Metropolitan and Great Central Railways Joint Committee.
At the north-west corner of the site are the terminal buildings of 1851 from Oxford Rewley Road railway station transplanted here in 2002 to serve as reception, visitor centre and display building.
The museum has a large collection of locomotives and rolling stock, details of a few of which are given below:-
- (from time to time a locomotive's older or newer number and livery might be used)
- Steam locomotives
- GWR 0-6-0PT 5700 Class no. 7715 (London Transport L99)
- GWR 4-6-0 6959 "Modified Hall" Class no. 6989 "Wightwick Hall"
- GWR 2-8-2T 7200 Class no. 7200
- GWR 0-6-0PT 9400 Class no. 9466
- LMS 2-6-2T Class 2MT nos. 41298 and 41313
- LMS 2-6-0 Class 2MT no. 46447
- LSWR 2-4-0WT 0298 Class no. 0314 (British Railways 30585)
- Metropolitan Railway 0-4-4T E Class no. 1 (London Transport L44)
- Diesel locomotives
- Diesel multiple units
- BR Class 115 unit 51886+59761+51889 "Aylesbury College Silver Jubilee 1987"
- Electric motive power
- Post Office Railway (London) 1930 Stock No. 803
- London Underground CO/CP Stock unit 53028+013063+54233
- Rolling stock
- BR Mk 1 TPO sorting van no. 80394
- London Transport brake vans nos. B557 and FB578
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