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Princes Risborough station is a railway station on the Chiltern Main Line that serves the town of Princes Risborough in Buckinghamshire, England. It is operated by Chiltern Railways. ==History== At one period there were four different railway routes from the northern end of Princes Risborough station, although there has only ever been one to the south. The first railway to reach Princes Risborough was the Wycombe Railway, which opened its extension from Wycombe as far as on 1 August 1862.〔MacDermot vol. I, part I, p. 438〕〔Mitchell & Smith, Apr. 2002, ''Historical Background''〕〔Mitchell & Smith, April 2003, ''Historical Background''〕 There were three intermediate stations on this section: West Wycombe,〔(West Wycombe station under construction ) ''The Transport Archive''〕 Princes Risborough and . The cost of construction of the station building was £1104 9s 5d and additional general costs were £824 8s 0d. The station building as built was a typical Wycombe railway design with an open porch at the right hand end on the platform elevation, the design was the same as West Wycombe, Bledlow and Wheatley, and also on the original part of the Wycombe railway Cookham, Marlow Road, Wooburn Green and Loudwater. A branch of the Wycombe Railway was opened from Princes Risborough to on 1 October 1863.〔〔MacDermot vol. II, p. 6〕 The Wycombe Railway was worked by the Great Western Railway, and was absorbed by that railway in 1867. The Watlington and Princes Risborough Railway opened its line on 15 August 1872; that railway became part of the GWR on 1 January 1884.〔〔MacDermot vol. II, p.623〕 The original station building was located a few hundred yards further north than the present site. The original building was extended at the north end to provide extra office accommodation between 1870 and 1880, and a curved roof canopy covering the platform may have also been added at the same time. Further additions to the building were made between 1894 and 1896. A second platform was added when the Watlington branch was opened in 1872 although there was only a single track between the two platforms. In 1892 a new signal box was brought into use and a new passing loop, so the second platform was rebuilt with two tracks between them. A footbridge was also provided at this time. The Great Western & Great Central Joint Committee was created with the dual objective of providing the Great Central Railway with a second route into London, bypassing the Metropolitan Railway; and of providing the GWR with a shorter route to the Midlands.〔MacDermot, p.416〕〔Jenkins, pp. 8-9〕 Central to this scheme was the upgrading of the existing GWR route between and Princes Risborough, which was transferred to the Joint Committee at its establishment on 1 August 1899. The line was extended in a north-westerly direction to Ashendon Junction, at which point the joint line ended, and a GCR route ran northwards to Grendon Underwood Junction, just south of ; both sections opened for goods on 20 November 1905, and for passengers on 2 April 1906.〔Jenkins, p.11〕〔Mitchell & Smith, Nov 2006, ''Historical Background''〕 Continuing in the same north-westerly direction from Ashendon Junction, the Bicester cut-off line, which was purely GWR property, was opened for goods trains on 4 April 1910, and to passengers on 1 July 1910.〔MacDermot, p.448〕〔Mitchell & Smith, Sep 2002, ''Historical Background''〕 The branch closed to passengers on 1 July 1957, and the route to Thame (and Oxford) closed on 7 January 1963;〔 those over the GCR route ended on 5 September 1966,〔 leaving the present network of two lines to the north, to and to Aylesbury. The station was transferred from the Western Region of British Rail to the London Midland Region on 24 March 1974.〔Railway Magazine, May 1974, p. 248〕 Chiltern Railways considered reopening the Oxford line (via Thame) but are now constructing a spur line at Bicester to create a new service to Oxford. Part of the Watlington line has been reopened by the Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway, which plans to extend its heritage railway service to an unused platform face at Princes Risborough station. Princes Risborough station currently has three platforms: Platform 1 for Aylesbury; platform 2 for London and Aylesbury; and platform 3 for Banbury, and Birmingham. Originally, the station had four platforms; two on the mainline to and 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, one of which, the 'up' line, was restored in September 2011 as part of Chiltern's Evergreen 3 upgrade project. 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. 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「Princes Risborough railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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