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Wotton railway station (Great Central Railway)

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Wotton
General information
LocationWotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire
England
Grid referenceSP695152
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyGreat Central Railway
Pre-groupingGreat Central Railway
Post-groupingLondon and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
2 April 1906Station opened
7 December 1953Station closed

Wotton was a railway station at Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire, on the Great Central Railway's link line between Calvert and Ashendon Junction.

History

The station was opened by the Great Central Railway on 2 April 1906, becoming part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. It was built to the south of the point where the GCR crossed the Brill Tramway near its Wotton station. It was closed on 7 December 1953.

Notes

  1. Edwards & Pigram 1988, p. 109.
  2. Pre-Grouping Atlas, p. 10, section E3
  3. ^ Butt 1995, p. 255
  4. Mitchell & Smith, fig. XVIb
  5. Mitchell & Smith, fig. 62

References

Service

A 1911 Railway Clearing House map of railways in the vicinity of Wotton


Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Akeman Street
Line and station closed
  Great Central Railway
London Extension
  Haddenham
Line and station closed

External links

Closed railway stations in Buckinghamshire
Banbury to Verney Junction branch line
Metropolitan Railway
Varsity Line
Brill Tramway
Wycombe Railway
Great Central Railway
Newport Pagnell branch
Great Western & Great Central Joint Rly
Other lines

51°49′53″N 0°59′33″W / 51.831371°N 0.992600°W / 51.831371; -0.992600


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