Monument record 0951006000 - Halton Camp railway

The narrow gauge railway link to Wendover station, which had been used to transport timber from Halton Estate in support of the [First World] war effort, was replaced in 1917 with a standard gauge branch line, to bring in coal and building materials to the RFC workshops. Timber from Halton Woods was used as trench props on the Western Front (B2, B6).
Railway shown on historic mapping NG 6" Provisional Edition 1955-62 and NG 10k Edition 1972-90. Labelled as 'dismantled railway' on 25k digital raster map. Appears to be disused even by 1955-62 edition (B4-5).

A railway of 20th century date is visible on historic aerial photographs and remote sensing data as extant structures, earthworks and levelled earthworks and was mapped as part of the Aylesbury Vale Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18604). Located on the north side of the town of Wendover and centred at SP 86991 08905. The railway line, originally built as a narrow-gauge line, was constructed to extract timber from the woods at Halton, felled by Canadian lumberjacks, for use in the trenches in World War I (Adam p81). Aerial photographs from 1961 appear to show the railway still present but it does not show on those from 1967. Images of the railway and the station at West Camp are on the ukairfields website for Halton. (7-19)