File:Chinnor railway3.jpg

Camera location	51° 41′ 50.16″ N, 0° 54′ 27.18″ W	View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap	51.697266; -0.907550

Object location	51° 41′ 52″ N, 0° 54′ 25″ W	View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap	51.697700; -0.907000

Description

Chinnor station is the headquarters of the preserved Chinnor and Princes Risborough railway line, known as the Icknield Line LinkExternal link. Chinnor was originally an intermediate station on the branch line which ran from Princes Risborough to Watlington, and which opened in 1872. However falling traveller numbers made it an early pre-Beeching closure and the line closed to passenger traffic in 1957, although freight traffic to Chinnor Cement Works continued until 1989. In the 1970s the station and platform at Chinnor were demolished by British Railways, so the railway preservation company have had to completely rebuild them. Although the line currently stops short of entering Princes Risborough the railway are hopeful of securing access soon.

Here pannier tank engine 57xx 0-6-0PT 9682, built at Swindon in 1949, simmers gently on an sunny early spring afternoon, awaiting its next call of duty. Despite the classic Great Western Railway scene this engine post-dated the Nationalization of the railways in 1948 so only ever wore British Railways livery.

Date

30 March 2008

Source

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/750471

Author

Nigel Cox

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