Aylesbury and Buckingham Railway

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Aylesbury & Buckingham Railway

Legend

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| Banbury to Verney Junction

branch line

Varsity Line

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Great Central Main Line

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Quainton Road Junction

Brill Tramway

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Princes Risborough line

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London–Aylesbury line

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The Aylesbury and Buckingham Railway (A&BR) was an English railway located in Buckinghamshire, England operating between Aylesbury and Verney Junction.

## History[edit]

Share certificate of the Aylesbury & Buckingham Railway Company, issued 18 August 1867 to Sir Harry Verney, Bart

The Aylesbury and Buckingham Railway Company was incorporated on 6 August 1860,[1] and the line opened on 23 September 1868 connecting Aylesbury and Verney Junction and serving intermediate stations at Waddesdon Manor (renamed Waddesdon on 1 October 1920), Quainton Road, Grandborough (renamed Granborough Road on 6 October 1920), and Winslow Road. The A&BR was never extended to Buckingham.

In the late 1880s the Metropolitan Railway planned to extend its projected Aylesbury line northwards to Morton Pinkney, to make a junction with the East and West Junction Railway. Instead, the Aylesbury and Buckingham Railway Company was absorbed by the Metropolitan Railway on 1 July 1891 and it thus formed the northward progress of the Metropolitan Railway.

The section of line from Morton Pinkney to just north of Quainton Road railway station was built later as part of the London Extension of the Great Central Railway, joining the, by then, Metropolitan Railway tracks into London, and forming the Great Central Main Line which opened for passenger traffic on 15 March 1899.

In April 1906 the Metropolitan Railway section from Harrow-on-the-Hill station to Verney Junction was leased to a Joint Committee of the Metropolitan Railway and Great Central Main Line: it was worked on a five-yearly basis alternately by the joint lessees.

Passenger services on the line were withdrawn between Quainton Road and Verney Junction from 6 July 1936, having last run on the 4th, and the intermediate stations of Granborough Road and Winslow Road closed. The last through service, a parcels train from Verney Junction, was on 6 April 1947. The line was officially closed on 8 September 1947 but was retained as a siding to a point near Winslow Road until at least 1963. On 14 September that year a railtour ran on this part of the line.

## Current and future developments[edit]

In December 2008 a section of track between Aylesbury and the newly opened Aylesbury Vale Parkway station was reinstated for regular passenger use. There are plans to continue the reinstatement north of Aylesbury Vale as part of new the East West Rail Consortium route around London. However the route would use only the section just to the north of Quainton Road, continuing via the Great Central route and the Calvert curve towards Bletchley. There are no firm plans for stations between Aylesbury Vale and Calvert nor a reinstated station at Verney Junction.

## See also[edit]

* Great Central Railway, The "London Extension"
* Metropolitan Railway
* Buckinghamshire Railway

## References[edit]

1. ^ "No. 22411". The London Gazette. 7 August 1860. pp. 2934–2935.

* Clive's UndergrounD Line Guides, Metropolitan line

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Metropolitan line

Stations|

| Central London section|

* Aldgate
* Liverpool Street
* Moorgate
* Barbican
* Farringdon
* King's Cross St Pancras
* Euston Square
* Great Portland Street

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Core section|

* Baker Street
* Finchley Road
* Wembley Park
* Preston Road
* Northwick Park
* Harrow-on-the-Hill

Uxbridge branch|

* West Harrow
* Rayners Lane
* Eastcote
* Ruislip Manor
* Ruislip
* Ickenham
* Hillingdon
* Uxbridge

Outer section
& branches|

* North Harrow
* Pinner
* Northwood Hills
* Northwood
* Moor Park
* Watford branch
* Croxley
* Watford
* Rickmansworth
* Chorleywood
* Chalfont & Latimer
* Chesham branch
* Chesham
* Amersham branch
* Amersham

Rolling stock|

| Present rolling stock|

* S8 Stock

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History|

| Former lines|

* Brill Tramway
* 1863–1933
* 1933–1988
* Aylesbury and Buckingham Railway

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Closed stations|

* Brill
* Granborough Road
* Hammersmith (Grove Road)
* Lord's
* Marlborough Road
* Quainton Road
* St Mary's (Whitechapel Road)
* Shoreditch
* Swiss Cottage
* Tower of London
* Uxbridge Road
* Verney Junction
* Waddesdon
* Waddesdon Road
* Westcott
* Winslow Road
* Wood Lane
* Wood Siding
* Wotton

Former stations|

* Aldgate East
* Aylesbury
* Barking
* Bow Road
* Bromley-by-Bow
* Dollis Hill
* Drayton Park
* East Ham
* Edgware Road
* Essex Road
* Finsbury Park
* Goldhawk Road
* Great Missenden
* Gunnersbury
* Hammersmith
* Highbury & Islington
* Kensington (Olympia)
* Kew Gardens
* Kilburn
* Kingsbury
* Ladbroke Grove
* Latimer Road
* New Cross
* New Cross Gate
* Mile End
* Neasden
* Old Street
* Paddington
* Plaistow
* Queensbury
* Ravenscourt Park
* Richmond
* Rotherhithe
* Royal Oak
* Shadwell
* Shepherd's Bush
* Stanmore
* Stepney Green
* Stoke Mandeville
* Surrey Quays
* Turnham Green
* Upton Park
* Wapping
* Wendover
* West Ham
* West Hampstead
* Whitechapel
* Willesden Green

Abandoned plans|

* Lothbury
* Clerkenwell
* Finchley Road
* Hampstead
* Watford Central

Transferred lines|

* Aylesbury line
* Bakerloo line
* East London line
* Hammersmith & City line
* Jubilee line
* Great Northern & City Railway

Former rolling stock|

* Metropolitan Railway electric multiple units
* GN&C Stock
* S Stock
* T Stock
* Circle Stock
* O/P/CP/CO/P1 Stock
* F Stock
* Main Line Stock
* A60 and A62 Stock

Former locomotives|

* A Class
* B Class
* C Class
* D Class
* E Class
* F Class
* G Class
* H Class
* K Class
* Metropolitan Railway electric locomotives
* Metropolitan departmental
* ex GWR
* Wotton Tramway

Metro-Land|

* Metro-land
* Metro-Land (1973 film)

Historic
proposals|

| Croxley Rail Link|

* Cassiobridge
* Watford Vicarage Road
* Watford High Street
* Watford Junction

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Other|

* West Hampstead interchange

* London Underground
* Transport for London
* London transport portal

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Transport in Buckinghamshire

Road|

| Motorways|

* M1
* M4
* M25
* M40

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A-roads|

* A4
* A40
* A41
* A404
* A412
* A413
* A418
* A421
* A422
* A428
* A4010
* A4012
* A4146
* A4155
* A5
* A508
* A509
* A5130

Roman roads|

* Akeman Street
* Watling Street

Notable junctions|

* Handy Cross roundabout
* Denham Roundabout
* Magic Roundabout (High Wycombe)

Motorway service stations|

* Beaconsfield
* Newport Pagnell

Rail|

| Main lines|

* West Coast Main Line
* Chiltern Main Line
* Great Western Main Line

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Other lines|

* Marston Vale line
* London–Aylesbury line
* Metropolitan line
* Aylesbury–Princes Risborough line
* Marlow branch line

Closed lines|

* Varsity Line
* Great Central Main Line
* Banbury to Verney Junction branch line
* Brill Tramway
* Wycombe Railway
* Watlington and Princes Risborough Railway
* Cheddington to Aylesbury Line
* Aylesbury and Buckingham Railway
* Wolverton–Newport Pagnell line
* Bedford–Northampton line

Other|

* Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway
* East West Rail
* Buckinghamshire Railway Centre
* Seer Green rail crash

Air|

* Denham Aerodrome
* Turweston Aerodrome
* Silverstone Heliport
* Wycombe Air Park

Waterways|

| Rivers|

* River Thames
* River Great Ouse

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Canals|

* Bedford & Milton Keynes Waterway (planned)
* Grand Union Canal
* Slough Arm
* Wendover Arm
* Aylesbury Arm

Footpaths|

| National Trails|

* Thames Path
* The Ridgeway

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Long-distance footpaths|

* Icknield Way (path)
* Chiltern Way
* Greater Ridgeway
* Midshires Way
* Ouse Valley Way
* Shakespeare's Way
* Swan's Way

Cycle paths|

* Route 4
* Route 6
* Route 51
* Route 57

Related articles|

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Transport in Milton Keynes

Road|

* Milton Keynes grid road system
* A421
* A422
* A4146
* A5
* A509
* Watling Street (Roman road, "Old A5")

Rail|

* Bletchley Flyover
* Bletchley railway station
* Bletchley TMD
* Bow Brickhill railway station
* East West Rail
* Fenny Stratford railway station
* Marston Vale line
* Milton Keynes Central railway station
* Varsity Line
* West Coast Main Line
* Woburn Sands railway station
* Wolverton railway station
* Wolverton–Newport Pagnell line
* Wolverton and Stony Stratford Tramway

Bus|

* Buses in Milton Keynes
* Arriva Shires & Essex
* Milton Keynes Coachway
* MK Metro
* Stagecoach Midlands
* United Counties Omnibus

Water|

* Bedford & Milton Keynes Waterway (proposed)
* Cosgrove aqueduct
* Grand Union Canal

Other transport|

* Milton Keynes redway system (shared path network)

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