Waddesdon station

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Waddesdon
Site of Waddesdon Station, one platform is visible on the left
Location
Place Waddesdon
Local authority Aylesbury Vale
Coordinates 51°51′16″N 0°53′58″W / 51.8545, -0.8995Coordinates: 51°51′16″N 0°53′58″W / 51.8545, -0.8995
History
Opened by Metropolitan Railway
Platforms 2
Key dates Opened 1897
Closed 1936
Replaced by none


Waddesdon is a closed station that served the village of Waddesdon and its manor, to the north of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, England. The station is not to be confused with Waddesdon Road Station at the other end of the Waddesdon Manor estate on the Brill Tramway.

The station was first opened as Waddesdon Manor by the Metropolitan Railway on 1 January 1897.[1] "Manor" was dropped from the name on 1 October 1922.[1] It was the first station north of Aylesbury on the section of the Metropolitan Railway between Aylesbury and Verney Junction.

The station and was closed on 5 July 1936 following the Metropolitan Railway's absorption into the London Passenger Transport Board in 1933. The service was cut back to Aylesbury.[1]

While open, the station was also served by former Great Central Main Line (running on the same tracks as the Metropolitan Line as far as Quainton Road) which was not itself closed down until the 1960s, under the Beeching Axe.

Today the permanent way, now single-track, remains in place through the site of the station. One platform of the station (on the side remote from the remaining track) remains; the other has been demolished. The line is still used for the occasional freight train, as well as special services between Aylesbury and Quainton Road for events at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre.

Because of its association with the Metropolitan Line this station is considered to be one of the Closed London Underground stations although it is over 30 miles from London and is not underground.

[edit] Reference

  1. ^ a b c Rose, Douglas (1999). The London Underground, A Diagrammatic History. Douglas Rose/Capital Transport. ISBN 1-85414-219-4. 

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Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Aylesbury   British Railways
Great Central Main Line		   Quainton Road
Aylesbury   Metropolitan Railway
Until 1936		   Quainton Road