Denham Golf Club railway station

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Denham Golf Club

Location

Place

Higher Denham

Local authority

South Bucks

Operations

Station code

DGC

Managed by

Chiltern Railways

Platforms in use

Live departures and station information from National Rail

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

15,572

2005/06 *

10,500

History

Key dates

Opened 1912

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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Denham Golf Club from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.

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Denham Golf Club station is on the Chiltern Line out of London Marylebone towards High Wycombe.

The station was built in 1912, six years after passenger services commenced on the Great Western/Great Central Joint line from Grendon Underwood junction to Marylebone via High Wycombe. Its original name was "Denham Golf Club Platform", and it was built to provide access to the adjacent Golf Club. It became a Halt between the wars (and was still known by this title in the mid-sixties), at which time the platforms were lengthened. In the 1950's a new 'Up' platform was built in concrete opposite the 'Down'. (Previously it was on the Denham side of the road bridge, and made of wood.) The 'Down' platform was also rebuilt in concrete. Its present name has no suffix.

The waiting rooms are still the original Great Western 'pagoda' structures. The ticket office, at road level on the down side, was also a pagoda building, but was damaged by fire in 2005 and demolished in early 2007. A near replica building was erected to replace the original ticket office in 2007; unlike the original it has no clerk's window. Both waiting rooms and the original ticket office were listed on 27 November 1992, to prevent their replacement by the 'bus shelter' type structures appearing elsewhere along the line.

The original platform lighting standards were cast iron, and marked "G.W. & G.C. Jt" to reflect the builders' identities. These were removed as part of a modernisation of the station lighting—and indeed as part of the modernisation of the whole line—at around the same time as the new 'Class 165' diesel multiple unit stock was brought into service (1991).

Its hourly trains serve the adjacent community of Higher Denham almost exclusively (which is younger than the station), as nearly all golfers reach the Golf Club by car.

The station appears in the opening scenes of an episode of the 1960s TV series Man in a Suitcase called Brainwash and also in the 2007 film Hot Fuzz.