Monument record 0578801001 - VERNEY JUNCTION STATION

Summary

Nineteenth and twentieth century railway station

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  • RAILWAY STATION (19th Century to Modern - 1800 AD to 1968 AD)

Description

1959 MAP MARKS 'VERNEY JUNCTION' AT NGR (B5).
STATION OPENED SEPT 1868 WITH AYLESBURY-BUCKINGHAM RAILWAY AS JUNCTION WITH BLETCHLEY-BANBURY & OXFORD LINES. BECAME N TERMINUS OF METROPOLITAN RAILWAY JULY 1891. CLOSED 1 JAN 1968 (PLANS, ILLUS)(B3-4).
STATION BUILDINGS, EXCEPT HOUSE, GONE; PLATFORMS EXTANT (B5).
Buildings report held at NMR (B7).
Photos (B8).
After the Metropolitan extended to Aylesbury in 1892, Verney Junction became busy and was famous for beautiful flowers and station ornaments (B9).

Sources (9)

  • <1>SBC7396 Bibliographic reference: LELEUX R 1976 THE EAST MIDLANDS (REGIONAL HISTORY OF RAILWAYS OF GREAT BRITAIN VOL 9) PP34-37.
  • <2>SBC3058 Article in serial: F G Cockman. 1972. 'THE RAILWAY ERA IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE', IN RECS OF BUCKS 19 PP156-168. Vol 19.
  • <3>SBC14563 Bibliographic reference: Bill Simpson. 1978. THE BANBURY TO VERNEY JUNCTION BRANCH.
  • <4>SBC14564 Bibliographic reference: SIMPSON B 1985 THE BRILL TRAMWAY INCLUDING THE RAI LWAY FROM AYLESBURY TO VERNEY JUNCTION.
  • <5>SBC12183 Unpublished document: PIKE A R (BCM) NOV 1991 FIELD VISIT.
  • <6>SBC10315 Map: OS 1883,1885,1959 1:10560 MAPS.
  • <7>SBC23358 Unpublished document: English Heritage. 2006. NMR Buildings Reports. BF007408.
  • <8>SBC24228 Bibliographic reference: Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith. 2005. Country Railway Routes: Oxford to Bletchley Including Verney Junction to Banbury. Plates XV, 69-76.
  • <9>SBC22784 Bibliographic reference: F G Cockman. 2006. The Railways of Buckinghamshire from the 1830s: An account of those that were not built as well as those which were. paage 71.

Location

Grid reference SP 73670 27430 (point)
Civil Parish MIDDLE CLAYDON, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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  • Event - Survey: Field visit (EBC13533)

Record last edited

Apr 14 2015 10:41AM

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