Watlington and Princes Risborough Railway was an independent English railway company that opened a line between the Oxfordshire towns of Watlington and...
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was part of the former Great Western Railway branch line between Watlington and Princes Risborough. British Railways closed the line to passenger traffic...
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Princes Risborough (/ˈrɪzbərə/) is a market town and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England; it is located about 9 miles (14 km) south of Aylesbury and...
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Princes Risborough railway station is a stop on the Chiltern Main Line, serving the market town of Princes Risborough in Buckinghamshire, England. It...
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Watlington railway station in Oxfordshire was the terminus of the Watlington and Princes Risborough Railway and opened in 1872. Watlington station was...
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insufficient funds. Instead Watlington was reached by a 9 mi (14 km) line completed by the Watlington and Princes Risborough Railway Company in 1872. After...
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The Aylesbury–Princes Risborough line is a rural branch line between Princes Risborough and Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, England. The line is single...
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transport links, including Avebury, Swindon, Wantage, Wallingford, Princes Risborough and Tring. The Ridgeway is one of four long-distance footpaths that...
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Bledlow (section Sources and further reading)
on the Watlington and Princes Risborough Railway. It was 3⁄4 mile (1.2 km) to the south and closer to the village. It was opened in 1906 and closed in...
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different 7 ft 1⁄4 in (2,140 mm) broad gauge types for the growing railway, such as the Firefly and later Iron Duke Class. In 1864 Gooch was succeeded by Joseph...
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A4010 road (section Princes Risborough)
Main Line from West Wycombe to Princes Risborough and then the Princes Risborough to Aylesbury Line from Princes Risborough to Little Kimble. The road passes...
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Chinnor railway station in Oxfordshire is on the line of the former Watlington and Princes Risborough Railway. The station was reopened by the Chinnor and Princes...
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Bledlow Bridge Halt railway station was a halt on the Watlington and Princes Risborough Railway which the Great Western Railway opened in 1906 to serve...
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operation. In January 1963 British Railways withdrew passenger services between Princes Risborough and Oxford, and closed all intermediate stations including...
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East West Rail (redirect from Newton Longville railway station)
establish a new main line railway between East Anglia and South Wales. The immediate plan is to build (or rebuild) a line linking Oxford and Cambridge via Bicester...
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Lewknor Bridge Halt railway station was a halt on the Watlington and Princes Risborough Railway which the Great Western Railway opened in 1906 to serve...
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England, running from Dover and London in the southeast, via St Albans to Wroxeter. The road crosses the River Thames at London and was used in Classical Antiquity...
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date from 1861, and envisaged an independently owned route from Cholsey to Princes Risborough via Wallingford, Benson, Watlington and Chinnor. This line...
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Wainhill Crossing Halt was a halt on the Watlington and Princes Risborough Railway which the Great Western Railway opened in 1925 to serve the Oxfordshire...
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Aston Rowant railway station was opened in 1872 and was a part of the Watlington and Princes Risborough Railway. Having closed in 1961, there have been...
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Alcester Railway (1878) Watlington and Princes Risborough Railway (31 December 1883) Llynvi and Ogmore Railway (1883) Llynvi Valley Railway (1866) Duffryn...
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M40 motorway (section Incidents and accidents)
Canyon where the motorway enters Oxfordshire and meets junction 6 with the B4009 for Lewknor, Watlington, and Chinnor. This junction is a variant on the...
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Varsity Line (redirect from Bedford and Cambridge Railway)
Junction; divergence towards Princes Risborough. Launton; opened 1 October 1850; closed 1 January 1968. Marsh Gibbon and Poundon; opened 2 August 1880;...
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Kingston Crossing Halt railway station was a halt on the Watlington and Princes Risborough Railway which the Great Western Railway opened in 1906 to serve...
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the Wycombe Railway was also built to this gauge. In 1862, the Wycombe Railway opened an extension from High Wycombe via Princes Risborough to Thame. In...
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Bletchley. After a loop through central Bletchley close to Bletchley railway station and Bletchley Park, it resumes its track northwards via Fenny Stratford...
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Metropolitan line (category Railway lines opened in 1863)
the Metropolitan Railway began the world's first underground railway between Paddington and Farringdon with wooden carriages and steam locomotives,...
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(311 km) long and was constructed in four phases. Most of the motorway was opened between 1959 and 1968. The southern end was extended in 1977 and the northern...
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M25 motorway (section Junctions and services)
the edge of Heathrow Airport, and within sight of Windsor Castle. North of this, it goes under the Chalfont Viaduct railway bridge, completed in 1906, which...
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Marston Vale line (redirect from Bedford and London and Birmingham Railway Act 1845)
Bedford and London and Birmingham Railway Act 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. xliii), and opened in 1846 by the London and Birmingham Railway, though the L&B merged...
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