Denham Golf Club railway station
Denham Golf Club  | |
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| Location | |
| Place | Higher Denham |
| Local authority | District of South Bucks |
| Grid reference | TQ028879 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | DGC |
| Managed by | Chiltern Railways |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | F1 |
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Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries | |
| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2002/03 | 17,558 |
| 2004/05 |
 15,572 |
| 2005/06 |
10,500 |
| 2006/07 |
 13,991 |
| 2007/08 |
17,213 |
| 2008/09 |
18,860 |
| 2009/10 |
20,564 |
| 2010/11 |
19,460 |
| 2011/12 |
18,916 |
| 2012/13 |
22,188 |
| 2013/14 |
20,932 |
| 2014/15 |
22,738 |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 1912 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Denham Golf Club from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
| UK Railways portal | |
Denham Golf Club railway station is a railway station near the villages of Baker's Wood and Denham, Buckinghamshire, England. The station is on the Chiltern Main Line between Denham and Gerrards Cross.
History
The station was opened in August 1912, at the request of the Golf Club, which had opened the previous year.[1] It is on what was the Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway, which had been opened in 1906. The station was originally called Denham Golf Club Platform, and it was built to serve the adjacent golf club. Between the two World Wars the platforms were lengthened and the station was made a halt. The original "up" platform was on the London side of the road bridge, and made of wood, with an access path connecting to the track leading to the Golf Club. In the 1950s a new concrete "up" platform was built on the Wycombe side of the road bridge, opposite the "down" platform, which was also rebuilt in concrete. At the same time a proposed name change by the as-now British Railways Board to change the name to 'Higher Denham' was rejected.[2]
The station was transferred from the Western Region of British Rail to the London Midland Region on 24 March 1974.[3]
The two waiting rooms are original Great Western Railway "pagoda" shelters. The ticket office, at road level on the down side, was also a pagoda building. Both waiting rooms and the original ticket office have been listed buildings since 27 November 1992, to prevent their replacement by the bus shelter type structures then being installed at other stations on the line. The ticket office was damaged by fire in 2005 and demolished early in 2007. It was replaced with a near replica in 2007, but unlike the original the new building has no clerk's window. The waiting rooms have recently been repainted to match the ticket office.
The original platform lamp-posts were cast iron, marked with the initials "G.W. & G.C. Jt" of the original operator. The lamp-posts were removed when the station lighting — and indeed the whole line — were modernised in about 1991, at about the time as the new Class 165 diesel multiple unit trains entered service.
The station was closed between 16 March to 19 June 2015 to allow Network Rail to undertake major repairs.[4]
Services
| Preceding station | National Rail |
Following station | ||
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| Gerrards Cross | Chiltern Railways London - Birmingham |
Denham | ||
The typical off-peak service pattern (as of the summer 2014 timetable) is one train per hour to Gerrards Cross, and one train per hour to London Marylebone, calling at most intermediate stations. At peak times, some faster trains operate, and in the early morning, late evening and at weekends, some services from Denham Golf Club run through to High Wycombe, Princes Risborough or Aylesbury.[5]
Denham Golf Club is a Penalty Fares station with automatic ticket facilities but no ticket office. The station is unstaffed.[6]
Cultural use
The station appears in the opening scenes of an episode of the 1960s TV series Man in a Suitcase called Brainwash and also in the 2007 feature film Hot Fuzz.
References
- ↑ http://www.denhamgolfclub.co.uk/history/
- ↑ http://www.denhamgolfclub.co.uk/history/
- ↑ Slater, J.N., ed. (May 1974). "Notes and News: Transfer of Marylebone-Banbury services". Railway Magazine (London: IPC Transport Press Ltd) 120 (877): 248. ISSN 0033-8923.
- ↑ "Denham Golf Club Station will be closed from Monday 16 March 2015 through to Friday 19 June 2015.". Retrieved 13 April 2015.
- ↑ http://www.chilternrailways.co.uk/sites/default/files/Timetable_19th_May_2014.pdf
- ↑ http://nationalrail.co.uk/stations/dgc/details.html
External links
- Train times and station information for Denham Golf Club railway station from National Rail
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Coordinates: 51°34′52″N 0°31′05″W / 51.581°N 0.518°W