Chinnor Chinnor is a large village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire about southeast of Thame, close to the border with Buckinghamshire. The village is a spring line settlement on the Icknield Way below the Chiltern escarpment. Since 1932 the ci ...

railway station in Oxfordshire is on the line of the former

Watlington and Princes Risborough Railway The Watlington and Princes Risborough Railway was an independent English railway company that opened a line between the Oxfordshire towns of Watlington and Chinnor in 1872. The branch, which connected to the Great Western Railway (GWR) mainli ...

. The station was reopened by the

Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway The Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway is a preserved standard gauge heritage railway with its headquarters and main station at Chinnor in South Oxfordshire, England. It runs along the foot of the Chilterns escarpment. Although a few fi ...

Association in 1994 after a period of disuse.

History

First opened in 1872 to serve Chinnor and the surrounding villages, the line was projected to be extended to Wallingford, where it would complete a cross-country line between

Cholsey Cholsey is a village and civil parish south of Wallingford in South Oxfordshire. In 1974 it was transferred from Berkshire to Oxfordshire, and from Wallingford Rural District to the district of South Oxfordshire. The 2011 Census recorded Cho ...

and Princes Risborough. However, due to financial difficulties the Watlington - Wallingford section was never built. The line was always

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. British Railways closed the Watlington and Princes Risborough Railway to passengers in 1957Oppitz, 2000, page 22 and to goods in 1961. The station was demolished but the section of line between Princes Risborough and Chinnor remained open for cement traffic until 1989.Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway: History
/ref> Current access to the station is from the 'wrong' side of the tracks compared with the original layout (''i.e.'' you have to cross the line to get to the station).

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Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway
Heritage railway stations in Oxfordshire Former Great Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1872 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1957 {{SouthEastEngland-railstation-stub