Monument record 0586100000 - RISBOROUGH TO THAME RAILWAY

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Historical records of nineteenth to twentieth century railway

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  • RAILWAY (19th Century to Modern - 1800 AD to 1999 AD)

Description

Dimensions - Length 4400m.
Plan Form - LINEAR
EXTENSION OF WYCOMBE RAILWAY THROUGH PRINCES RISBOROUGH-THAME OPENED 1 AUG 1862; LAST 13 MILES TO OXFORD FROM THAME OPENED 24 OCT 1864. SINGLE & BROAD GAUGE, CONVERTED 1870. OXFORD-PRINCES RISBOROUGH PASSENGER SERVICE CLOSED 7 JAN 1963; THAME OPEN FOR OIL TRAFFIC (B1,B5). WHOLE LINE NOW CLOSED & DERELICT. NGR'S (B3).
History of the railway. Passenger traffic declined after 1945 due to road traffic being subsidised (B6).
Oil depot closed in 1991 (B7).

Sources (7)

  • <1>SBC2931 Bibliographic reference: Rex Christiansen. 1981. A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Vol 13 Thames & Severn. pp148-150.
  • <2>SBC9239 Article in serial: C L Mowat. 1933. 'THE WYCOMBE RAILWAY', IN RAILWAY MAGAZINE 73 PP157-164 & PP321-326. Vol 73.
  • <3>SBC12200 Verbal communication: Andrew Pike (BCM). 1992. PIKE A R, PERS COMM, OCT 1992 FOLLOWING FIELD VISIT & INFORMATION FROM OS 1960 1:10560 MAP.
  • <4>SBC19703 Verbal communication: Francis Gomme. 2002. Francis Gomme to Sandy Kidd July 2002.
  • <5>SBC20434 Bibliographic reference: D Edwards R Pilgrim. 1982. The Final Link. page 46.
  • <6>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. PAGE 59.
  • <7>SBC25753 Bibliographic reference: John M C Healy. 1992. History of the Chiltern Line.

Location

Grid reference Centred SP 77860 03575 (4169m by 1404m)
Civil Parish LONGWICK-CUM-ILMER, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
Civil Parish PRINCES RISBOROUGH, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
Civil Parish BLEDLOW-CUM-SAUNDERTON, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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  • Event - Survey: (EBC13536)

Record last edited

Mar 5 2026 10:28AM

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