Haddenham (Bucks) railway station

Haddenham railway station was on the former Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway between Princes Risborough and Ashendon Junction.^[1] It was closed in 1963.

History

The Great Western & Great Central Joint Committee was created on 1 August 1899 with the dual objective of providing the Great Central Railway with a second route into London, bypassing the Metropolitan Railway; and of providing the Great Western Railway with a shorter route to the Midlands.^[2][3] The line ran from Northolt Junction to Ashendon Junction; the central section of its route was an existing GWR line. North of Princes Risborough a new line was constructed, which opened for goods on 20 November 1905, and for passengers on 2 April 1906.^[4][5][6] The only station originally provided on that new line was Haddenham,^[7] which was built on the western side of Haddenham village, on the north side of the present-day Station Road.^[8] The station was closed on 7 January 1963.^[4]

Twenty-four years later, a new station was opened about half a mile to the north-west, named Haddenham and Thame Parkway.

Route

Notes

References

• Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1 85260 508 1. R508. 
• Ian Allan (1976). British Railways Pre-Grouping Atlas and Gazetteer (Map). 1" = 8 miles. Cartography by W. Philip Conolly (5th ed.). ISBN 0 7110 0320 3. 
• Jenkins, Stanley C. (1978). The Great Western & Great Central Joint Railway. The Oakwood Library of Railway History. Blandford: Oakwood Press. 
• MacDermot, E.T. (1931). History of the Great Western Railway. Vol. II (1st ed.). Paddington: Great Western Railway. 
• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (September 2002). Princes Risborough to Banbury. Western Main Lines. Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN 1 901706 85 0. 

External links

• The station on navigable 1946 O. S. map