West Wycombe railway station

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West Wycombe
Location
Place West Wycombe
Area District of Wycombe
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
1862 Station Opened
3 November 1958 Station Closed
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Closed railway stations in Britain
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West Wycombe railway station was a railway station that served the village of West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire Situated about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) east of the village the station opened in 1862 and closed in 1958. Minutes of the Wycombe Railway state that construction of West Wycombe station in 1862 cost £430 8s 8d equivalent to £35,836 in 2021, with additional general works at £417 8s 8d equivalent to £34,753 in 2021.[1]

History

West Wycombe original station was an intermediate station on the Wycombe Railway and opened on 1 August 1862, the station was provided with a single platform and a station building of typical Wycombe Railway design which was repeated exactly at Princes Risborough and Wheatley. although other stations Cookham, Marlow Road, Wooburn Green, Loudwater and Bledlow had the same design with an additional crossing keepers house attached.

West Wycombe station was rebuilt in 1906 and provided with a new two platform station, there are a number of photographs of both the original Wycombe railway stations taken by SWA Newton http://www.transportarchive.org.uk/getobject.php?rnum=L1429&searchitem=west wycombe&mtv=L1&pnum=1

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.[2] 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.[3]

Passenger services were withdrawn from West Wycombe on 3 November 1958.[4] The line remains active, and plans for reopening the station have been discussed.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]

This station has now been demolished and now has flats built on some of the land.

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

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