Wendover railway station


Wendover railway station serves the town of Wendover in Buckinghamshire, England, and villages including Ellesborough and Wendover Dean. The station is on the London Marylebone — Aylesbury line and is served by Chiltern Railways trains. It is between and stations.

History

The station was opened on 1 September 1892 by the Metropolitan Railway, when the railway was extended from Chalfont Road to Aylesbury Town. The Great Central Railway served the station from 1899, linking the station with Leicester, Nottingham, and Sheffield.
When London Underground's Metropolitan line was fully electrified in the late 1950s and early 1960s, a decision was made to run only as far as Amersham. This meant that Wendover was henceforth now only served by main line services; following the end of steam-hauled Metropolitan line trains in 1961 the service was provided by British Rail Class 115 diesel multiple units until 1992. Responsibility for the station was transferred from London Transport to British Railways on 11 September 1961; British Railways signage gradually replaced that of the London Underground.
In 1966 as a result of The Reshaping of British Railways report, British Rail closed the line north of and the station is now only served by local commuter services. British Rail ran services until privatisation in 1996, when Chiltern Railways took over the franchise.
During the modernisation of the Met in the 1950s, the down platform buildings were demolished. In 1989-90 BR's Network SouthEast refurbished the station and the "up" platform canopy was shortened slightly.
During 2013 a new footbridge was constructed. The old footbridge steps to the platforms were removed, this footbridge still provides a link from outside the station on the Up side to the outside of the station on the Down side.

Services

At peak times there are up to four trains per hour towards London in the morning, and returning from London in the evening. Some of these are express services, which skip the stops shared with the Metropolitan line nearer to London.
Journeys to Marylebone take about 50 minutes. Journeys to Aylesbury take about 10 minutes.
The normal off-peak service pattern is as follows:
Very few buses are available from Wendover. The nearest taxi firms are in Aylesbury, except Alexander's Taxis, whose office is about five metres from the entrance to Wendover railway station.