Iver railway station is situated in the village of Richings Park, within

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, England. It is the first station on the

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located outside

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, down the line from and is situated between to the east and to the west. Services at the station are operated by the

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In preparation for the introduction of Elizabeth line services, the operation of the station was transferred to

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on behalf of Transport for London at the end of 2017.

History

The station is on the original line of the

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which opened on 4 June 1838, however no station was provided at Iver until 1924; Iver station opened on 1 December that year. This section of line is also where the first trials of the locomotive

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were held, commemorated by a public house in nearby Thorney.

William Stallybrass William Teulon Swan Stallybrass (formerly William Teulon Swan Sonnenschein; 22 November 1883 – 28 October 1948) was a barrister, Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford, from 1936, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from October 19 ...

, Principal of

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and

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, died in a railway accident when he stepped out of a moving train near the station in 1948. He was almost blind at the time. The line through Iver was electrified in 2017 in preparation for the Crossrail service, which began operation in December 2019. As part of ongoing work to prepare the station for the Elizabeth Line, Iver station gained a new station building, with a ticket office, ticket gates and accessible toilet.

Services

The station is served by local services operated by

Frequency

The typical off-peak service is: * 2tph to * 2tph to (Monday to Friday). * 2tph to (weekends) Trains are formed of Class 345 Aventra trains with nine coaches but, due to the short platforms at Iver, doors open only in the first six.

Service table

References

External links

{{Crossrail navbox Railway stations in Buckinghamshire Former Great Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1924 Great Western Main Line Railway stations served by the Elizabeth line