- Akeman Street railway station
Infobox UK disused station
name = Akeman Street
caption =
line =Great Central Railway
locale =Wotton
borough =Buckinghamshire
manager =
owner =London and North Eastern Railway
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latitude =
longitude =
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years =2 April 1906
events = Station opens
years1 =7 July 1930
events1 = Station closesAkeman Street was a
railway station in the English county ofBuckinghamshire . It was sited where the railway crossed the A41, the RomanAkeman Street .History
The station was opened by the
Great Central Railway , becoming part of theLondon and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. That company then closed station seven years later.The site today
The station buildings have now been demolished. An overgrown single track from the former
Great Central Main Line , the remains of the link to the GW/GC joint line, finishes in a set of stop blocks at the north end of the site.References
*cite book|author=R.V.J.Butt, |title= The Directory of Railway Stations |publisher=Patrick Stephens Ltd
year=1995 ISBN 1 85260 508 1*cite book|author=A. Jowett, |title= Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas |publisher=Atlantic Publishing |year=2000 ISBN 0 906899 99 0
*Picture of the station [http://prints.leics.gov.uk/pictures_670894/Akeman-Street-Station-Buckinghamshire.html]
*Pictures of the site now [http://disused-rlys.fotopic.net/c885252.html]
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