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Denbigh Hall railway station was a temporary terminus on the London and Birmingham Railway in the Denbigh area of what is now Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, England. It was situated about one mile (1.6 km) north of station, near a point where the railway crossed Watling Street. It was open for less than six months, between April and September 1838. ==History== The route of the London and Birmingham Railway was designed and engineered by Robert Stephenson. One of the major civil engineering projects on the line was the long Kilsby Tunnel in Northamptonshire,〔Yonge, page 10〕 between Bletchley and Rugby. Work on this tunnel was delayed, due to the builders unexpectedly encountering quicksand, and the route was not ready for the scheduled opening of the railway on 9 April 1838.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kilsby Tunnel )〕 As a temporary measure, Denbigh Hall station was built near the point where the line crossed Watling Street, allowing passengers to transfer to stage-coaches to continue their journey to , also near Watling Street, a distance of approximately . The station was named after an inn on Watling Street, dating from 1710.〔"Milton Keynes Heritage" (map) - English Partnerships 2004〕 The bridge over Watling Street still survives, but has been extended as the railway has widened. In 1920, Herbert Leon, 1st baronet of the nearby Bletchley Park, commissioned a plaque on the bridge to commemorate the station, which reads: The station closed with the opening of Kilsby Tunnel on 17 September 1838,〔Butt, page 77〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=London and Birmingham )〕 though the line still exists, forming part of the West Coast Main Line from London to Glasgow. The connection with the Varsity Line, joining nearby, still bears the name Denbigh Hall Junction.〔Yonge, page 9〕 Due to the temporary nature of the station, no images of it or records of its layout are known to exist, but a contemporary engraving by George Dodgson Callow and William Radclyffe shows a train on the bridge in its immediate vicinity.〔Roscoe, facing page 76〕 Line and station open |route=London and Birmingham Railway |col= }} 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Denbigh Hall railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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