Aylesbury Vale Parkway railway station
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| Aylesbury Vale Parkway | |||
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| Place | Aylesbury | ||
| Local authority | Aylesbury Vale | ||
| Operations | |||
| Managed by | Chiltern Railways | ||
| Platforms in use | 1 | ||
| History | |||
| Key dates | Opening 2008 | ||
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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 December 2008, with construction having started in 2007[1].
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/GCR 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[2]. There will be a single bay platform for passenger trains, while freight trains to Calvert bypass the station to the west. The track between Aylesbury and the new station will be upgraded to continuous welded rail with a maximum line speed for DMU passenger trains of 60 mph. The journey time to Aylesbury is expected to be less than four minutes and a single ticket will cost about £1.[citation needed]
Originally the station was not due to be completed until 2010[3], however, it is due to be complete ahead of schedule in late 2008, with an opening date set as 14 December 2008.[4] As of December 2007, track works have commenced.
[edit] References
- ^ The next stop will be Aylesbury Vale Parkway. Buckinghamshire County Council. Retrieved on 2008-06-04.
- ^ Aylesbury Vale Parkway (Microsoft Word). Chiltern Railways. Retrieved on 2008-04-15.
- ^ New Aylesbury Vale Parkway station to open in 2010. Chiltern Railways (2006-04-11). Retrieved on 2008-06-04.
- ^ Aylesbury Vale Parkway. Buckinghamshire County Council. Retrieved on 2008-06-04.
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| Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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| Terminus | Chiltern Railways Services start late 2008 |
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