Denham railway station
Denham | |
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| General information | |
| Location | South Bucks |
| Managed by | Chiltern Railways |
Denham station is on the Chiltern Line out of Marylebone towards High Wycombe.
The station was built just to the north of Denham village as part of the construction of the Great Western/Great Central Joint line from Grendon Underwood junction to Marylebone via High Wycombe. Its original name was "Denham - Junction for Uxbridge", as it was a stop on the shuttle service between Gerrards Cross and Uxbridge High Street stations; the latter has long been closed and demolished, and the connection trackwork lifted.
The station layout was characteristic of the period, with four roads - two aligned for fast running straight through, and two platforms for stopping services. A small goods yard was provided to the north of the line, the whole supervised from a signal box on the London end of the down platform.
Under the London Passenger Transport Board's 1935-1940 New Works Programme, the station was to have been the terminus of the Central Line's westward extension, with extra Central Line platforms to the south of those for the main line. Works on the extension were postponed during World War II. After the war, Green belt legislation was introduced to limit the expansion of urban areas and the extension was cut back to West Ruislip; no visible sign remains at Denham of the extension works.
The signal box and the through roads have long gone, and all services use the platform roads, although these have improved track alignments to allow fast running. Chiltern Railways have formerly indicated that improvements along the line may see the four roads reinstated at some future date.
The former goods yard is now a heavily-used station car park.
The Joint line builders provided a pedestrian underpass to link the platforms, but this is inaccessible to those of impaired mobility. The embankment supporting the westbound platform and buldings is subsiding, so plans have been approved to relocate the westbound platform as an island north of the westbound road - in the gap left by the removal of the original through roads - and to provide a footbridge and lifts, similar to the installation at Gerrards Cross, to give ready access to the westbound platform for the wheelchair-bound and infirm. The existing westbound platform and buildings will be removed.
A second, proposed, stage, providing a third reversible track between the rear of the new platform and the existing eastbound platform road, will improve operational flexibility by allowing stopping services to be passed by following faster, non-stop, trains.
See also
- Harefield Road tube station - a new station between Denham and West Ruislip that would have been built if the Central Line extension had been built as far as Denham.
External links
- Train times and station information for Denham railway station from National Rail
- www.railwayarchive.org.uk
| Preceding station |  National Rail
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Following station | ||
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| West Ruislip | Chiltern Railways London-Birmingham |
Denham Golf Club | ||