Wotton (GCR) railway station

Wotton
Location
Place Wotton Underwood
Area Aylesbury Vale
Grid reference SP695152
Operations
Original company Great Central Railway
Pre-grouping Great Central Railway
Post-grouping London and North Eastern Railway
Platforms 2
History
2 April 1906 Station opens
7 December 1953 Station closes
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain
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Wotton was a railway station at Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire, on the Great Central Railway's link line between Calvert and Ashendon Junction.[1]

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History

The station was opened by the Great Central Railway on 2 April 1906,[2] becoming part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. It was built to the south of the point where the GCR crossed the Brill Tramway near its Wotton station.[3]. It was closed on 7 December 1953.[2][4]

Notes

  1. ^ Pre-Grouping Atlas, p. 10, section E3
  2. ^ a b Butt 1995, p. 255
  3. ^ Mitchell & Smith, fig. XVIb
  4. ^ Mitchell & Smith, fig. 62

References

Service

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Akeman Street   London and North Eastern Railway
Great Central Railway		   Haddenham

External links

Closed railway stations in Buckinghamshire
Banbury to Verney Junction Branch Line
Metropolitan Railway
Varsity Line
Brill Tramway
Wycombe Railway
Great Central Railway
Newport Pagnell branch
Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway
Other lines