Princes Risborough railway station

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Princes Risborough

Location

Place

Princes Risborough

Local authority

Wycombe

Operations

Station code

PRR

Managed by

Chiltern Railways

Platforms in use

Live departures and station information from National Rail

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

0.459 million

2005/06 *

0.413 million

History

Key dates

Opened 1862

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

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Princes Risborough station is a railway station that serves the town of Princes Risborough in Buckinghamshire, England. The station is operated by Chiltern Railways and is located on the Chiltern Main Line and is the junction for a branch to Aylesbury.

There were originally two other branches here:

To the Cherwell Valley Line and Oxford. Chiltern Railways once planned to reopen this, but it is not part of their current plans.
To Watlington. Part of this line is owned by the Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway, and in the future they intend to operate an extended heritage steam service into an unused platform face at Princes Risborough station thus increasing their accessibility by visitors.

The station currently has 3 platforms: Platform 1 for Aylesbury; platform 2 for London and Aylesbury; platform 3 for Banbury, and Birmingham. Originally, the station had 4 platforms; two on the mainline to/from London and Birmingham; one for the branch to Oxford or Watlington; and one to Aylesbury. The station also had two fast mainlines running through the middle of the station. At one time the station only had two usable platforms, the current platforms 1 and 2. This is due to the radical cuts on the Chiltern Main Line and Great Central Main Line in the 1960s. Chiltern Railways rebuilt the down platform in 1998 to increase capacity on the line, but this is on the old fast down mainline. The original down platforms are still visible from the station.