Aylesbury and Buckingham Railway

The Aylesbury and Buckingham Railway (A&BR) was an English railway located in Buckinghamshire, England. It was incorporated on 6 August 1860 and opened on 23 September 1868. The line connected Aylesbury and Verney Junction and served 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 (MetR) planned to extend its projected Aylesbury line northwards to Moreton Pinkney, to make a junction with the East and West Junction Railway. Instead, the A&BR was absorbed by the MetR on 1 July 1891 and it thus formed the northward progress of the MetR. The section of line from Moreton Pinkney to just north of Quainton Road railway station was built later as part of the London Extension of the Great Central Railway (GCR), joining the, by then, MetR tracks into London, and forming the Great Central Main Line which opened for passenger traffic on 15 March 1899.

In April 1906 the MetR section from Harrow-on-the-Hill station to Verney Junction was leased to a Joint Committee of the MetR and GCR: 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Passenger services on the line were withdrawn between Quainton Road and Verney Junction from 6 July 1936, and the intermediate stations of Granborough Road and Winslow Road closed. The last through service, a parcels train from Verney Junction, was on 6 September 1947.

ee also

* Great Central Railway, The "London Extension"

References

* [http://www.davros.org/rail/culg/metropolitan.html Clive's UndergrounD Line Guides, Metropolitan Line]