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Wycombe Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![L101 (55001) entering High Wycombe in the early 1980s. The unit is now preserved on the East Lancs Railway.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //]](/images/50000/50648.jpg "High Wycombe")
![GWR Castle class 4-6-0 no 7029 <I>Clun Castle</I> passes through the former station at West Wycombe (closed November 1958) in the summer of 1964 with a train of empty stock for Birmingham. Withdrawn by BR at the end of 1965, the locomotive has since been preserved. <br><br>[John Robin /08/1964]](/images/48000/48006.jpg "West Wycombe")
![Take five. Prairie tank 6125 with a PW train on the Joint GC/GW line near West Wycombe on a pleasant Sunday morning in the summer of 1964.<br><br>[John Robin 23/08/1964]](/images/46000/46450.jpg "West Wycombe")
![Jubilee 45661 <I>Vernon</I> drifts south through West Wycombe in the summer of 1964 with a Liverpool (Brunswick) - London parcels train.<br><br>[John Robin 26/08/1964]](/images/45000/45833.jpg "West Wycombe")
![6845 <I>Parkland Grange</I> passing West Wycombe in August 1964 with a freight from Oxford. <br><br>[John Robin 26/08/1964]](/images/46000/46051.jpg "West Wycombe")
![GWR Grange 4-6-0 no 6847 <I>Tidmarsh Grange</I> passing West Wycombe in the summer of 1964 with a Paddington - Banbury train. <br><br>[John Robin 26/08/1964]](/images/47000/47048.jpg "West Wycombe")
![Stanier 8F 2-8-0 no 48611 off Woodford Halse shed brings a freight through West Wycombe in the summer of 1964.<br><br>[John Robin 26/08/1964]](/images/47000/47250.jpg "West Wycombe")
![Annesley based rebuilt Scot no 46122 <I>Royal Ulster Rifleman</I> passes through West Wycombe on 26 August 1964 with a parcels train from Nottingham.<br><br>[John Robin 26/08/1964]](/images/47000/47485.jpg "West Wycombe")
![Possibly the last shot of the day at West Wycombe as night begins to fall on a late summer evening in August 1964. The passing train is a Birkenhead - Paddington express and the locomotive is Tyseley based 7026 <I>'Tenby Castle'</I>. <br><br>[John Robin 28/08/1964]](/images/51000/51365.jpg "West Wycombe")
![Oxley shed's Grange class 4-6-0 no 6855 <I>Saighton Grange</I> nears West Wycombe on 29 August 1964 with an express bound for the south coast. <br><br>[John Robin 29/08/1964]](/images/50000/50455.jpg "West Wycombe")
![Castle class 4-6-0 no 7014 <I>Caerhays Castle</I> heading south through West Wycombe on 31 August 1964. The Tyseley based locomotive was substituting for a failed diesel on a Birmingham Snow Hill - London Paddington service. <br><br>[John Robin 31/08/1964]](/images/48000/48300.jpg "West Wycombe")
![Ex-GWR Grange class 4-6-0 no 6866 <I>Morfa Grange</I> heading south through West Wycombe in August 1964 with a freight off the Oxford line. <br><br>[John Robin 31/08/1964]](/images/48000/48829.jpg "West Wycombe")
![Stanier Coronation Pacific 46245 <I>City of London</I> with an Ian Allan Railtour from Paddington to Crewe heads through West Wycombe on 1 September 1964. The train was routed via Birmingham Snow Hill and Shrewsbury. [Ref query 17338]<br><br>[John Robin 01/09/1964]](/images/49000/49699.jpg "West Wycombe")
![The 11-coach RCTS <i>Great Central Rail Tour</i> pauses for a photostop at Aylesbury on its way north on 13 August 1966. The railtour was run to mark the end of through passenger services over much of the GC London Extension the following month. The special had started from Waterloo, arriving at Aylesbury via Kew East, Acton Wells and Neasden South Junctions behind West Country Pacific no 34002 <I>Salisbury</I>. The locomotive took the special on to Nottingham Victoria over the GC. <br><br>[K A Gray 13/08/1966]](/images/33000/33461.jpg "Aylesbury")
![A DMU makes a smoky departure from High Wycombe with a service to London Marylebone in 1973. Still an active 'pole route' by the look of it!<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1973]](/images/36000/36222.jpg "High Wycombe")
![A Swindon class 123 DMU northbound at High Wycombe in 1973. [Ref query 46049]<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1973]](/images/52000/52351.jpg "High Wycombe")
![Evening train from Princes Risborough to Aylesbury leaving Little Kimble in 1974.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //1974]](/images/20000/20264.jpg "Little Kimble")
![A quiet afternoon at Little Kimble, on the Princes Risborough - Aylesbury branch, in 1974.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //1974]](/images/21000/21395.jpg "Little Kimble")
![The passenger service to Bledlow, sited on the former Princes Risborough to Oxford line, ended in 1963 and the last freight traffic (latterly oil and cars) passed through in 1991. This photograph shows the station on 30th August 1977 when the line still had regular business. Today, the former station is open for bed and breakfast, with a four poster bed available if desired.<br><br>[Mark Dufton 30/08/1977]](/images/27000/27471.jpg "Bledlow")
![The basic halt at Monks Risborough (& Whyteleaf) on the line between Princes Risborough and Aylesbury as seen on 30th August 1977. The small hut was the waiting shelter, just able to seat three abreast at most! A replacement station was opened to the north of this location in 1986.<br><br>[Mark Dufton 30/08/1977]](/images/33000/33994.jpg "Monks Risborough")
![At rest at Aylesbury in July 1978 is 25 205 with a short Express Parcels train. The brightly coloured stock in the background is the <I>Safety Train</I>, a rake of exhibition carriages that toured the country at the time promoting safety on the railways.<br><br>[Mark Dufton 10/07/1978]](/images/25000/25452.jpg "Aylesbury")
![A class 115 leaves High Wycombe with a service to Banbury on 15 July 1985.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 15/07/1985]](/images/49000/49508.jpg "High Wycombe")
!['Bubble car' 55031 at Bourne End in 1987. This is the reversal point for Marlow - Maidenhead services and the line formerly continued to High Wycombe. The unit is preserved at the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1987]](/images/58000/58991.jpg "Bourne End")
![A DMU for London Marylebone stands in the old Marlow bay at High Wycombe in September 1991.<br><br>[Bill Roberton /09/1991]](/images/36000/36814.jpg "High Wycombe")
![Modern property boundaries often indicate former land uses. This innocuous looking path along some Buckinghamshire garden fences - which curves right as the trackbed to High Wycombe curves left - follows a former branch into the Soho paper mills - one of several paper mills in this valley.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 26/04/2014]](/images/47000/47150.jpg "Bourne End")
![A down Clubman leaves High Wycombe station on the former four-track GC and GW joint section on 26 April 2014. That creeper on the cutting wall, which contains 1.2 million bricks - give or take a dozen - looks rather tenacious. [compare to image 49508]<br><br>[Ken Strachan 26/04/2014]](/images/47000/47255.jpg "High Wycombe")
![An early motorway opening and a late railway closure: this concrete box was cast into the Loudwater viaduct on the M40 circa 1969 to allow the railway from Bourne End (behind) to High Wycombe (ahead) to pass under the road. It was only used for trains for about six months.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 26/04/2014]](/images/47000/47307.jpg "Loudwater")
![Amazing what you find when you take down a few old posters. Seriously outdated station sign at High Wycombe in April 2014. The connections to Marlow and Maidenhead were severed some 44 years ago.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 26/04/2014]](/images/47000/47441.jpg "High Wycombe")
![It's not unusual, as a Welsh chap once sang, to find old rails used as fence posts; but this bridge rail is in use to protect the corner of Bourne End goods shed from assaults by passing road vehicles. Notice the old gate pivot to the left.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 26/04/2014]](/images/47000/47548.jpg "Bourne End")
![A model of information provision on footpaths along old railway routes. Polite, informal, helpful, and accurate. Other councils please note. The line in question is from Bourne End (to the right) to High Wycombe.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 26/04/2014]](/images/47000/47638.jpg "West Wycombe")
![The twin track standard gauge Hughenden viaduct strides confidently over a complex traffic island in High Wycombe. The puzzle is, why does the retaining wall for the former single track broad gauge viaduct alongside look so recent? The answer is that it was built at the same time as the traffic system - about 30 years ago. This modernization swept away a number of railway arch business premises; and also, according to a lifelong resident, a rather dodgy pub.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 26/04/2014]](/images/48000/48078.jpg "High Wycombe")
![A train for Maidenhead comes off the Marlow branch on a Spring Saturday morning in 2014. Notice the signalling shed for the token on the right.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 26/04/2014]](/images/50000/50627.jpg "Bourne End")
![Former railway buildings at High Wycombe in April 2014 [see image 47130]. Here are the remains of the entrance, offices, and train shed used from 1846 to 1864. Part of the current Chiltern Railways station can be seen on the right.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 26/04/2014]](/images/50000/50994.jpg "High Wycombe")
![If all of the trackbed from Bourne End to High Wycombe was as clear as this section, I think the railway would have been re-opened by now. Unfortunately, intense building of flats between the A40 crossing and High Wycombe station has provided a major obstacle to reinstatement. Scene in April 2014 looking North-West from Treadaway Hill. [See image 47307]<br><br>[Ken Strachan 26/04/2014]](/images/51000/51007.jpg "Loudwater")
![Looking towards High Wycombe from the platform exit at Bourne End station in April 2014. It is clear where the railway used to run - and equally clear why it will probably never return. [See image 50627 for a view in the opposite direction] [Ref query 14686]<br><br>[Ken Strachan 26/04/2014]](/images/51000/51235.jpg "Bourne End")
![168107 speeds through High Wycombe on 29 July with an express for Banbury. In the foreground is the former Marlow branch siding with its new platform for terminating services from Marylebone. <br><br>[Bill Roberton 29/07/2014]](/images/48000/48248.jpg "High Wycombe")
![The scene at Chiltern Railways' Aylesbury depot on 15 August 2014 shows a contrast in operational DMU styles, with a 24 year old Class 165 Turbo unit in the company of two 54 year old Class 121 'Bubble Car' units. All are available for service with either 55020 or 55034 used on weekday peak hour Aylesbury to Princes Risborough shuttles. The diesel shunter is 01509 <I>Lesley</I> (RH 468043).<br><br>[Malcolm Chattwood 15/08/2014]](/images/48000/48422.jpg "Aylesbury")
![An unusual scene on the national network but a daily event at Aylesbury in the summer of 2014. Class 121 55020 waits to leave with the 17:30 to Princes Risborough. Stabled in the sidings is a Class 117 unit now used for water jetting and two more Class 121 units 55032 and 977873, neither of which are in passenger service.<br><br>[Malcolm Chattwood 15/08/2014]](/images/48000/48443.jpg "Aylesbury")
![Chiltern railcar 121034 waits alongside the single platform at Little Kimble in August 2016 with a Princes Risborough - Aylesbury shuttle service. [Chiltern's railcars are to be withdrawn on 19th May - see news item]<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 18/08/2016]](/images/58000/58824.jpg "Little Kimble")
![Close-up of Little Kimble station sign with DRA Reminder, August 2016.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 18/08/2016]](/images/59000/59007.jpg "Little Kimble")
![121034 near Little Kimble in August 2016 with the Chiltern Railways Aylesbury - Princes Risborough shuttle.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 18/08/2016]](/images/59000/59029.jpg "Little Kimble")
![Chiltern Railways green class 121 railcar 121 034 or DX2011B, prepares to operate an additional service at 1639 hrs from Aylesbury to Princes Risborough on Monday 15th May 2017 in the final week of operation of <br>
these units. It will follow the train in front which is the 1629 Aylesbury to Marylebone via High Wycombe.<br>
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<a target=external href=https://www.chilternrailways.co.uk/news/retirement-class-121-bubble-car>Chiltern Railways Retirement of Class 121 Bubble Car</a><br><br>[Douglas Blades 15/05/2017]](/images/59000/59246.jpg "Aylesbury")
![The start of the final week of Chiltern Railways <I>Bubble Car</I> operation shows both units, the last 1st generation DMUs in main line service, parked up at Aylesbury earlier on the Monday afternoon (150517). One will later operate the peak evening services between here and Princes Risborough.<br>
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<br><br>[Douglas Blades 15/05/2017]](/images/59000/59371.jpg "Aylesbury")
