Bourne End - High Wycombe on this day 40 years ago

[whole diary]

[Electric train]

The line between Bourne End and High Wycombe was closed by British Rail 2 May 1970 after the DoT had decided not to provide the ^60,000 requested by BR^▸ (British Rail(ways)) to keep it open, the line was not included in the Beeching Report but was certainly a victim of the method used by Beeching to justify keeping a line open this method survived right up to the 1980's  There are campaigns to reopen the line, I am not sure how practical these are and at what cost but today it is certainly a missing link

Some links to websites about the line
Marlow - Maidenhead Passengers Association http://www.mmpa.org.uk/
Marlow & District Railway Society's news letter "The Donkey" issue 127 http://www.mdrs.org.uk/donkey.htm
Pete63's "Local History Feature" http://pete63.me.uk/pete63_010.htm
Alan Henbest's "Signal Alans interest" http://sites.google.com/site/signalaninterest/platform6-bourneendbranch

[eightf48544]

Not sure this should be in the lighter side!

Perhaps the Dark Side.

A real tragedy that this line closed especialy, as mentioned, it wasn't in the Beeching report.

Just think with Crossrail Maidenhead, Chiltern with it's Birmingham, Stratford & Oxford services from Wycombe.

Plus link to East and West from Aylesbury to Blecthley, Bedford and Milton Keynes. What a network! Linking all the big towns in Bucks and adjacent counties.