Akeman Street railway station

{{short description|Former GCR/LNER Railway Station in Buckinghamshire}}

{{Infobox station

| name = Akeman Street

| status = Disused

| image = Akeman Street railway station.jpg

| caption = Station in early 1900s.

| borough = Woodham, Buckinghamshire

| country = England

| grid_name = Grid reference

| grid_position = {{gbmapscaled|SP705182|25|SP705182}}

| platforms = 2

| original = Great Central Railway

| pregroup = Great Central Railway

| postgroup = London and North Eastern Railway

| years1 = 2 April 1906

| events1 = Opened for goods

| years2 = 3 September 1907

| events2 = Opened for passengers

| years3 = 7 July 1930

| events3 = Closed for passengers

| years4 = 2 October 1931

| events4 = Closed for goods

}}

Akeman Street was a railway station at Woodham, Buckinghamshire, where the railway linking Ashendon Junction and Grendon Underwood Junction crossed the Akeman Street Roman road (now the A41 road).

History

The station was opened by the Great Central Railway, becoming part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. That company then closed the station seven years later.

The site today

The buildings and platforms on top of the embankment have long been demolished, but the brick-built main station building down at road level remains and is now a private house. An overgrown single track from the former Great Central Main Line, the remains of the link to the GW/GC joint line, finishes in a set of stop blocks at the north end of the site. In August 2014 the Calvert Landfill site acquired the track bed from Akeman Street station running up to Calvert station. The track bed was transformed into a private road for landfill vehicles. This greatly reduced dirt, congestion and pot holes on local roads.

Service

File:Aylesbury, High Wycombe, Princes Risboro, Quainton Road & Verney Ashendon RJD 146.jpg map of railways in the vicinity of Akeman Street]]

{{rail line|previous=Calvert
Line and station closed |next=Wotton
Line and station closed |route=Great Central Railway
London Extension |col={{GCR colour}} }}

References

{{Butt-Stations}}
{{Jowett-Atlas}}
{{Jowett-Nationalised}}

External links

[http://www.npemap.org.uk/tiles/map.html#469,218,1 Station on navigable O.S. map]
Picture of the station [https://web.archive.org/web/20110222022749/http://prints.leics.gov.uk/pictures_670894/akeman-street-station-buckinghamshire.html]
Pictures of the site now [http://disused-rlys.fotopic.net/c885252.html]{{Dead link|date=October 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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Category:Former Great Central Railway stations

Category:Disused railway stations in Buckinghamshire

Category:Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1906

Category:Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1930

Category:1906 establishments in England

Category:1930 disestablishments in England