West Wycombe railway station

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West Wycombe
Location
Place	West Wycombe
Area	Wycombe district
Grid reference	SU838945
Operations
Original company	Wycombe Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway
Platforms	2
History
1 August 1862	Line opens from High Wycombe to Thame
1906	Station Opened
3 November 1958	Station Closed
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West Wycombe railway station was a railway station that served the village of West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire on the Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway. Situated about half a mile east of the village the station opened in 1906 and closed in 1958.

History

The Wycombe Railway had reached High Wycombe (then known simply as Wycombe) on 1 August 1854; on 1 August 1862, it was extended to Thame.^[1] The line between High Wycombe and Princes Risborough was upgraded, doubled and transferred to the new Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway, the improved line coming into use on 2 April 1906.^[2]

Passenger services were withdrawn from West Wycombe on 3 November 1958.^[3] The line remains active, and plans for reopening the station have been discussed. A reopened station would serve the extensive western suburbs of High Wycombe.^{[citation needed]}

Routes

A 1911 Railway Clearing House map of railways in the vicinity of West Wycombe

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Saunderton Line and station open		Great Western Railway London-Birmingham		High Wycombe Line and station open

Notes

↑ MacDermot, vol. I part I, p.438
↑ MacDermot, vol. II, p. 432
↑ Mitchell & Smith, fig. 103

References

MacDermot, E.T. (1927). History of the Great Western Railway. Vol. I (1st ed.). Paddington: Great Western Railway.
MacDermot, E.T. (1931). History of the Great Western Railway. Vol. II (1st ed.). Paddington: Great Western Railway.
Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (April 2002). Paddington to Princes Risborough. Western Main Lines. Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN 1-901706-81-8.

External links

v t e Closed railway stations in Buckinghamshire

Banbury to Verney Junction Branch Line	Fulwell & Westbury Water Stratford Halt Radclive Halt Buckingham Padbury Verney Junction

Metropolitan Railway	Verney Junction Winslow Road Granborough Road

Varsity Line	Winslow Swanbourne Claydon Marsh Gibbon and Poundon

Brill Tramway	Waddesdon Road Westcott Wotton Wood Siding Brill

Wycombe Railway	Bledlow Loudwater Wooburn Green West Wycombe

Great Central Railway	Akeman Street Waddesdon Calvert Wotton

Newport Pagnell branch	Bradwell Great Linford Newport Pagnell

Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway	Brill and Ludgershall Dorton Halt Haddenham Ilmer Halt

Other lines	Aylesbury High Street Bledlow Bridge Halt Denbigh Hall Olney Penn South Aylesbury Halt Twyford Bridge Halt Castlethorpe

Coordinates: 51°38′35″N 0°47′25″W / 51.6430°N 0.7903°W / 51.6430; -0.7903

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