Chinnor
Chinnor station, Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway, looking north on Good Friday, 6th April 2007. The station opened with the line to Watlington on 15th August 1872 and closed when passenger services were withdrawn on 1st July 1957. The whole line remained open to freight until 1961 when it was cut back to Chinnor (where the station had been demolished) and this stub remained open for cement traffic until 1989. Thereafter, the preservation group moved in to revive the line and rebuilt Chinnor station to the designs of the original. The first public passenger trains ran on 20th August 1994 as far as the site of Thame Junction, offering just an out-and-back ride until 2018. After a few test runs into the bay platform at Princes Risborough, an official reopening of the rest of the line took place there on 15th August 2018, 146 years to the day since the opening of the original line to Watlington.
Location: Chinnor
Original line: Watlington and Princes Risborough Railway
Photographer: David Bosher
Contact photographer: David Bosher
Photosets: English stations, National and Heritage Lines (excluding London) 1979-2023
Date: 06/04/2007
Image number: 72632
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