Aylesbury High Street
Aylesbury High Street Station in 1953
General information
Location	Aylesbury,Buckinghamshire England
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	London and Birmingham Railway (Aylesbury)
Pre-grouping	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London Midland and Scottish Railway London Midland Region of British Railways
Key dates
10 June 1839	First station opens
16 June 1889	Replaced by second station
25 September 1950	Renamed Aylesbury High Street
2 February 1953	Closed to passengers
2 December 1963	Closed to freight
Location

Aylesbury High Street railway station was theLondon and North Western Railway station which served the town ofAylesbury in theEnglish county ofBuckinghamshire. It was the terminus of a branch fromCheddington on what is now known as theWest Coast Main Line running toLondon Euston and toBirmingham New Street and further north.

Two stations were built, the first being used as a goods terminus after its closure to passengers.^[1]

The first station at Aylesbury was opened by theAylesbury Railway on 10 June 1839; this was closed on 16 June 1889 when it was replaced by the second station, also namedAylesbury. The line was operated by theLondon and Birmingham Railway, and when that company amalgamated with others to form theLondon and North Western Railway (LNWR), the Aylesbury Railway was absorbed by the LNWR.^[2] The LNWR became part of theLondon Midland and Scottish Railway during theGrouping of 1923, passing on to theLondon Midland Region of British Railways during thenationalisation of 1948.British Railways (BR) renamed the stationAylesbury High Street on 25 September 1950; it was then closed to passengers on 2 February 1953^[3] and then freight on 2 December 1963.

The only intermediate station between Aylesbury and Cheddington was at Marston Gate.

The site is now occupied by an office block and a retail park.^[4] The route into Aylesbury has been taken over by a road named 'Stocklake' and 'Vale Park Drive' (part of theA418 road), although the formation remains mostly intact along the route of the road. During the summer of 2015 trees and vegetation were cleared from the formation in preparation for the construction of a new Stocklake (urban) road. On Monday 18 January 2016, contractors began work on the new road, which will use the trackbed of the old railway to link Park Street with Douglas Road, Aylesbury, parallel to the existing road. This will be converted into a new service road for homes and businesses, providing more parking and easier access.^[5]

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• Jowett, Alan (2000).Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers.ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1.OCLC 228266687.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989).Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd.ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0.OCLC 22311137.
• Station on navigable O.S. map

51°49′00″N0°48′26″W / 51.81678°N 0.80717°W /51.81678; -0.80717

• Former London and North Western Railway stations
• Disused railway stations in Buckinghamshire
• Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1839
• Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1963

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