Princes Risborough railway station

Princes Risborough railway station

Infobox UK station
name = Princes Risborough


manager = Chiltern Railways
locale = Princes Risborough
borough = Wycombe
usage0405 = 0.459
usage0506 = 0.413
usage0607 = 0.461
platforms = 3
start = 1862
code = PRR

Princes Risborough station is a railway station that serves the town of Princes Risborough in Buckinghamshire, England. The station is operated by Chiltern Railways and is located on the Chiltern Main Line and is the junction for a branch to Aylesbury.

There were originally two other branches here:

* To the Cherwell Valley Line and Oxford. Chiltern Railways once planned to reopen this, but it is not part of their current plans.
* To Watlington. Part of this line is owned by the Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway, and in the future they intend to operate an extended heritage steam service into an unused platform face at Princes Risborough station thus increasing their accessibility by visitors.

The station currently has 3 platforms: Platform 1 for Aylesbury; platform 2 for London and Aylesbury; platform 3 for Banbury, and Birmingham. Originally, the station had 4 platforms; two on the mainline to/from London and Birmingham; one for the branch to Oxford or Watlington; and one to Aylesbury. The station also had two fast mainlines running through the middle of the station. At one time the station only had two usable platforms, the current platforms 1 and 2. This is due to the radical cuts on the Chiltern Main Line and Great Central Main Line in the 1960s. Chiltern Railways rebuilt the down platform in 1998 to increase capacity on the line, but this is on the old fast down mainline. The original down platforms are still visible from the station.

A single weekday service from London Paddington serves the station, departing at 1112 hrs (as of July 2008), running non-stop to Gerrards Cross. It traverses the rarely used former main line between Northolt Park Junction and Old Oak Common Junction, in many places reduced to a single track. This section is used more frequently by freight and waste trains, and also diversions during engineering works. There is an equivalent service towards Paddington arriving there at 1043 hrs, but this train starts some way to the south at Gerrards Cross.

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