Saunderton railway station

Saunderton National Rail
Saunderton station
Location
Place Saunderton
Local authority District of Wycombe
Grid reference SU813981
Operations
Station code SDR
Managed by Chiltern Railways
Number of platforms 2
DfT category F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
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Annual rail passenger usage*
2012/13 Decrease 50,614
2013/14 Increase 50,738
2014/15 Increase 58,978
2015/16 Increase 62,700
2016/17 Decrease 59,202
History
Key dates Opened 1 July 1901 (1 July 1901)
Original company Great Western Railway
Pre-grouping Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway
Post-grouping GW & GC Joint
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Saunderton from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Saunderton railway station is a railway station on the A4010 road between High Wycombe and Princes Risborough, in Buckinghamshire, England. It is near the villages of Bledlow Ridge and Bradenham. Confusingly, the station is about 2.5 miles (4 km) south of the village of Saunderton after which it is named. The hamlet immediately around the station is also known locally as Saunderton, but is not named on maps.

The station is on the Chiltern Main Line between High Wycombe and Princes Risborough stations.

History

A 1911 Railway Clearing House map of railways in the vicinity of Saunderton

The station was opened on 1 July 1901.[1]

In March 1913 Suffragettes attacked Saunderton station, burning down the main building. Placards reading "Votes for Women" and "Burning to get the Vote" were left on the platform. They may have chosen Saunderton Station because it is near Benjamin Disraeli's birthplace at Bradenham Manor.

The station was transferred from the Western Region of British Rail to the London Midland Region on 24 March 1974.[2]

Services

All services are provided by Chiltern Railways. The typical Monday - Friday off-peak service consists of:

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Princes Risborough   Chiltern Railways
London - Birmingham		   High Wycombe
  Historical railways  
Princes Risborough
Line open, station open		   Great Western Railway
London - Birmingham		   West Wycombe
Line open, station closed

Facilities

Saunderton station in 2005

The station is unstaffed. There are a (card only) ticket vending machine and a permit to travel ticket machine on the "down" (northbound) platform.

There is an Edwardian waiting room on the "up" (southbound) platform. It contains local information boards and is usually unlocked and locked by local residents for the weekday morning peak-time train services.

Saunderton station in 2004

Notes

  1. ↑ Jenkins, p. 49
  2. ↑ Slater 1974, p. 248.

References

  • Jenkins, Stanley C. (1978). The Great Western & Great Central Joint Railway. The Oakwood Library of Railway History. Blandford: The Oakwood Press.
  • Slater, J.N., ed. (May 1974). "Notes and News: Transfer of Marylebone-Banbury services". Railway Magazine. London: IPC Transport Press Ltd. 120 (877). ISSN 0033-8923.

Coordinates: 51°40′34″N 0°49′30″W / 51.676°N 0.825°W / 51.676; -0.825

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