Denham Golf Club railway station
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Denham Golf Club station is on the Chiltern Main Line
out of London Marylebone towards High Wycombe
.
/Great Central
Joint line from Grendon Underwood
junction to Marylebone
via High Wycombe
. Its original name was "Denham Golf Club Platform", and it was built to provide access to the adjacent Golf Club. It became a halt between the wars (and was still known by this title in the mid-sixties), at which time the platforms were lengthened. The original Up platform was on the London side of the road bridge, and made of wood, with an access path connecting to the track leading to the Golf Club. In the 1950s a new Up platform was built in concrete on the Wycombe side of the road bridge, opposite the Down. The Down platform was also rebuilt in concrete. The station's present name has no suffix.
The station was transferred from the Western Region of British Rail
to the London Midland Region
on 24 March 1974.
The waiting rooms are still the original Great Western 'pagoda
' structures. The ticket office, at road level on the down side, was also a pagoda building, but was damaged by fire in 2005 and demolished in early 2007. A near replica building was erected to replace the original ticket office in 2007; unlike the original it has no clerk's window. Both waiting rooms and the original ticket office were listed on 27 November 1992, to prevent their replacement by the bus shelter type structures appearing elsewhere along the line. The waiting rooms have recently been repainted to match the ticket office.
The original platform lighting standards were cast iron, and marked "G.W. & G.C. Jt" to reflect the builders' identities. These were removed as part of a modernisation of the station lighting—and indeed as part of the modernisation of the whole line—at around the same time as the new Class 165 diesel multiple unit stock was brought into service (1991).
Its hourly trains serve the adjacent community of Higher Denham
almost exclusively (which is younger than the station), as nearly all golfers reach the Golf Club by car.
The station appears in the opening scenes of an episode of the 1960s TV series Man in a Suitcase
called Brainwash and also in the 2007 film Hot Fuzz
.
Chiltern Main Line
The Chiltern Main Line is an inter-urban, regional and commuter railway, part of the British railway system. It links London and Birmingham on a 112-mile route via the towns of High Wycombe, Banbury, and Leamington Spa...
out of London Marylebone towards High Wycombe
High Wycombe railway station
High Wycombe railway station is situated in High Wycombe in South Buckinghamshire. The station is served by Chiltern Railways trains on the Chiltern Main Line from Marylebone towards Birmingham Snow Hill. It is situated between Beaconsfield and Saunderton stations.-History:The station was built...
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Background
The station was built in 1912, six years after passenger services commenced on the Great WesternGreat Western Railway
The Great Western Railway was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament in 1835 and ran its first trains in 1838...
/Great Central
Great Central Railway
The Great Central Railway was a railway company in England which came into being when the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway changed its name in 1897 in anticipation of the opening in 1899 of its London Extension . On 1 January 1923, it was grouped into the London and North Eastern...
Joint line from Grendon Underwood
Grendon Underwood
Grendon Underwood is a village and civil parish in Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England. It is in the west of the county, close to the boundary with Oxfordshire and near the Roman road Akeman Street....
junction to Marylebone
Marylebone
Marylebone is an affluent inner-city area of central London, located within the City of Westminster. It is sometimes written as St. Marylebone or Mary-le-bone....
via High Wycombe
High Wycombe
High Wycombe , commonly known as Wycombe and formally called Chepping Wycombe or Chipping Wycombe until 1946,is a large town in Buckinghamshire, England. It is west-north-west of Charing Cross in London; this figure is engraved on the Corn Market building in the centre of the town...
. Its original name was "Denham Golf Club Platform", and it was built to provide access to the adjacent Golf Club. It became a halt between the wars (and was still known by this title in the mid-sixties), at which time the platforms were lengthened. The original Up platform was on the London side of the road bridge, and made of wood, with an access path connecting to the track leading to the Golf Club. In the 1950s a new Up platform was built in concrete on the Wycombe side of the road bridge, opposite the Down. The Down platform was also rebuilt in concrete. The station's present name has no suffix.
The station was transferred from the Western Region of British Rail
Western Region of British Railways
The Western Region was a region of British Railways from 1948. The region ceased to be an operating unit in its own right in the 1980s and was wound up at the end of 1992...
to the London Midland Region
London Midland Region of British Railways
The London Midland Region was one of the six regions created on the formation of the nationalised British Railways and consisted of ex-London, Midland and Scottish Railway lines in England and Wales. The region was managed first from buildings adjacent to Euston Station and later from Stanier...
on 24 March 1974.
The waiting rooms are still the original Great Western 'pagoda
Pagoda
A pagoda is the general term in the English language for a tiered tower with multiple eaves common in Nepal, India, China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam and other parts of Asia. Some pagodas are used as Taoist houses of worship. Most pagodas were built to have a religious function, most commonly Buddhist,...
' structures. The ticket office, at road level on the down side, was also a pagoda building, but was damaged by fire in 2005 and demolished in early 2007. A near replica building was erected to replace the original ticket office in 2007; unlike the original it has no clerk's window. Both waiting rooms and the original ticket office were listed on 27 November 1992, to prevent their replacement by the bus shelter type structures appearing elsewhere along the line. The waiting rooms have recently been repainted to match the ticket office.
The original platform lighting standards were cast iron, and marked "G.W. & G.C. Jt" to reflect the builders' identities. These were removed as part of a modernisation of the station lighting—and indeed as part of the modernisation of the whole line—at around the same time as the new Class 165 diesel multiple unit stock was brought into service (1991).
Its hourly trains serve the adjacent community of Higher Denham
Denham, Buckinghamshire
Denham is a village and civil parish in the South Buckinghamshire district of Buckinghamshire, England. It is north west of Uxbridge and north of junction 1 of the M40 motorway. Denham contains the Buckinghamshire Golf Club.-Origin:...
almost exclusively (which is younger than the station), as nearly all golfers reach the Golf Club by car.
The station appears in the opening scenes of an episode of the 1960s TV series Man in a Suitcase
Man in a Suitcase
Man in a Suitcase is a 1967 television series produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment.-Origins and overview:Man in a Suitcase was effectively a replacement for Danger Man, whose production had been curtailed when its star Patrick McGoohan had decided to create his own series, The Prisoner...
called Brainwash and also in the 2007 film Hot Fuzz
Hot Fuzz
Hot Fuzz is a 2007 British action dark comedy film written by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, and starring Pegg and Nick Frost. The three had previously worked together on the 2004 film Shaun of the Dead as well as the television series Spaced...
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