Marlow railway station serves the town of Marlow in

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, England. It is west of and is the terminus of the single-track Marlow Branch line from .

History

A branch from the

Wycombe Railway The Wycombe Railway was a British railway between and that connected with the Great Western Railway at both ends; there was one branch, to . History The Wycombe Railway Company was incorporated by an act of Parliament passed in 1846. The act ...

at was built by the Great Marlow Railway; this was opened on 28 June 1873, and was worked by the

Great Western Railway The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and r ...

. The terminus was originally named Great Marlow. The branch was absorbed by the GWR on 6 August 1897. On 14 February 1899, the station was renamed "Marlow". There was a proposal to extend the branch westwards to

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, but the plan was met with local opposition.

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opened the present station on 10 July 1967 on the site of the goods yard of the original station. The original station was then closed, demolished and its site redeveloped. The line was originally a branch from the Wycombe Railway route between and . When this service was withdrawn north of Bourne End in 1970, Marlow station became the terminus of the Marlow Branch Line which leaves the main

Great Western Main Line The Great Western Main Line (GWML) is a main line railway in England that runs westwards from London Paddington to . It connects to other main lines such as those from Reading to Penzance and Swindon to Swansea. Opened in 1841, it was the o ...

at Maidenhead. The service on the branch line is known locally as the "Marlow Donkey", which is commemorated by a local

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of the same name, although the origin of the term is unclear.

Services

Services are provided by

; at peak times these shuttle between Marlow and Bourne End every 30 minutes, but off-peak and at weekends they run through to Maidenhead once per hour, reversing at Bourne End. The trip typically takes 23 minutes.

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Railway stations in Buckinghamshire DfT Category F1 stations Former Great Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1873 Railway stations served by Great Western Railway Marlow, Buckinghamshire {{SouthEastEngland-railstation-stub