Station Name: WINSLOW ROAD

 

[Source: Nick Catford]


Date opened: 23.9.1868
Location: On the south side of East Claydon Road
Company on opening: Aylesbury & Buckingham Railway
Date closed to passengers: 6.7.1936
Date closed completely: 6.7.1936
Company on closing: Metropolitan & Great Central Joint
Present state: Unknown
County: Buckinghamshire
OS Grid Ref: SP750260
Date of visit: December 1968 & July 1974

Notes: The Metropolitan Railway bought the failing Aylesbury & Buckingham Railway in 1891 extending their line from Aylesbury to Verney Junction via Quainton Road. The Manchester Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway (renamed the Great Central in 1897) extended its main line south to meet the Metropolitan at Quainton Road and then ran alongside the latter to Finchley Road, where it diverged west to a separate terminus at Marylebone. Following a dispute between the two companies in 1902 administration of the line was trasferred to a joint committee.

When the Metropolitan Railway became part of London Transport in 1933 it was quickly decided that services north of Aylesbury could no longer be justified and within a few years they had all been closed.

Quainton Road Station is now home to the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre



Winslow Road Station on the last day of service





Winslow Road Station - the brick structures on either side of the platform supported the footbridge
P
hoto by Lens of Sutton


Photo:Winslow Road Station in July 1974 - a farm building had been built between the platforms
P
hoto by Nick Catford

1920

1930's

1935

1960's

1969


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[Source: Nick Catford



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