Aylesbury–Princes Risborough line

					to Aylesbury Vale Parkway
					Aylesbury

					London–Aylesbury line
					South Aylesbury Halt



					B4009 road
					Little Kimble


					Monks Risborough

					A4129 road
					B4444 road
					Chiltern Main Line to Banbury
					Former Wycombe Railway to Oxford
					Princes Risborough
					Chiltern Main Line to High Wycombe

The Aylesbury–Princes Risborough line is a rural branch line between Princes Risborough and Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, England. The line is single track throughout with a maximum speed of 40 mph.^[1]

History

The line was built as a single track broad gauge branch of the Wycombe Railway in 1863. The branch became part of the Great Western Railway when the latter took over the Wycombe Railway in 1867. The GWR converted the line to standard gauge in 1870. The branch was incorporated into the newly formed Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway in 1906. Network SouthEast made the branch part of its Chiltern subdivision in the 1980s.

Traffic

Passenger services are now operated by Chiltern Railways. The line is regularly used by freight services operated by DB Cargo UK and Freightliner. The trains, referred to as "binliners", carry waste from London to a waste facility near the site of the former Great Central Railway station at Calvert. For this purpose, during Chiltern Railways' Evergreen 2 project the line was resignalled with two new signals at Little Kimble, one for each direction of travel.^{[citation needed]} These allow two trains to travel in the same direction, thus allowing a passenger service to follow the freight train or vice versa.

Services

The current timetable, produced for December 2019, offers one passenger service per hour in each direction, with services outside the weekday morning and evening peaks operating directly between Aylesbury and London Marylebone.^[2] In peak periods a shuttle service operates between Aylesbury and Princes Risborough, with a change onto connecting services needed at Princes Risborough for onward travel towards London.^[2] Not all services stop at Little Kimble.

References

^ Route plan 16: Chilterns Archived 2016-01-17 at the Wayback Machine (2009) Network Rail.
^ ^a ^b "Download our timetable | Chiltern Railways". www.chilternrailways.co.uk. Retrieved 11 December 2016.

External links

Route plan 16: Chilterns (2007) Network Rail.
Route plan 16: Chilterns (2008) Network Rail.
Route plan 16: Chilterns (2009) Network Rail.

Railway lines in South East England

Primary

International	High Speed 1
National	Great Western Main Line West Coast Main Line Chiltern Main Line

Secondary

Berks/Bucks/Oxon to London	Elizabeth line Aylesbury line Waterloo–Reading line (and in Surrey) Windsor & Eton Riverside line (and in Surrey)
Kent to London	Bexleyheath line Chatham Main Line Dartford Loop Line Kent Coast line Maidstone line Medway Valley line North Kent line Ramsgate (via Canterbury West) line Sheerness line South Eastern Main Line Redhill–Tonbridge line (and in Surrey)
Surrey/Sussex/Hants to London	Alton line Arun Valley line Brighton Main Line Caterham line Eastleigh–Fareham line Hampton Court branch line Hastings line (and in Kent) Chertsey branch line Epsom Downs Branch New Guildford line Oxted line (and in Kent) Portsmouth Direct line Shepperton branch line South West Main Line Sutton and Mole Valley lines Tattenham Corner line West of England line
Others	Ascot–Guildford line Cherwell Valley line Cotswold Line Eastleigh–Romsey line East Coastway line (inc Marshlink line) Henley branch line Island line Lymington branch line Marlow branch line Marston Vale line North Downs Line Oxford–Bicester line Aylesbury–Princes Risborough line Reading–Taunton line West Coastway line Wessex Main Line Slough–Windsor & Eton line Reading–Basingstoke line Seaford branch line

Non-passenger

Heritage

Transport in Buckinghamshire

Road

Motorways	M1 M4 M25 M40
A-roads	A4 A40 A41 A404 A412 A413 A418 A421 A422 A428 A4010 A4012 A4146 A4155 A5 A508 A509 A5130
Roman roads	Akeman Street Watling Street
Notable junctions	Handy Cross roundabout Denham Roundabout Magic Roundabout (High Wycombe)
Motorway service stations	Beaconsfield Newport Pagnell

Rail

Main lines	West Coast Main Line Chiltern Main Line Great Western Main Line
Other lines	Marston Vale line London–Aylesbury line Metropolitan line Aylesbury–Princes Risborough line Marlow branch line
Closed lines	Varsity Line Great Central Main Line Banbury to Verney Junction branch line Brill Tramway Wycombe Railway Watlington and Princes Risborough Railway Cheddington to Aylesbury Line Aylesbury and Buckingham Railway Wolverton–Newport Pagnell line Bedford–Northampton line
Other	Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway East West Rail Buckinghamshire Railway Centre Seer Green rail crash

Air

Waterways

Rivers	River Thames River Great Ouse
Canals	Bedford & Milton Keynes Waterway (planned) Grand Union Canal Slough Arm Wendover Arm Aylesbury Arm

Footpaths

National Trails	Thames Path The Ridgeway
Long-distance footpaths	Icknield Way (path) Chiltern Way Greater Ridgeway Midshires Way Ouse Valley Way Shakespeare's Way Swan's Way

Cycle paths

v t e Transport in Milton Keynes
Road	Milton Keynes grid road system A421 A422 A4146 A5 A509 Watling Street (Roman road, "Old A5")
Rail	Bletchley Flyover Bletchley railway station Bletchley TMD Bow Brickhill railway station East West Rail Fenny Stratford railway station Marston Vale line Milton Keynes Central railway station Varsity Line West Coast Main Line Woburn Sands railway station Wolverton railway station Wolverton–Newport Pagnell line Wolverton and Stony Stratford Tramway
Bus	Buses in Milton Keynes Arriva Shires & Essex Milton Keynes Coachway MK Metro Stagecoach Midlands United Counties Omnibus
Water	Bedford & Milton Keynes Waterway (proposed) Cosgrove aqueduct Grand Union Canal
Other transport	Milton Keynes redway system (shared path network)

This page was last edited on 11 April 2022, at 20:21