Little Kimble railway station

{{Short description|Railway station in Buckinghamshire, England}}

{{Infobox station

| name = Little Kimble

| symbol_location = gb

| symbol = rail

| image = Little Kimble railway station 1.jpg

| borough = Little Kimble, Buckinghamshire

| country = England

| grid_name = Grid reference

| grid_position = {{gbmapscaled|SP823066|25|SP823066}}

| manager = Chiltern Railways

| platforms = 1

| code = LTK

| classification = DfT category F2

| original = Wycombe Railway

| pregroup = Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway

| postgroup = GW & GC Joint

| opened = 1872

| mpassengers =

{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2019/20 |passengers={{increase}} 7,066}}

{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2020/21 |passengers={{decrease}} 3,742}}

{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2021/22 |passengers={{increase}} 8,460}}

{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2022/23 |passengers={{increase}} 9,896}}

{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2023/24 |passengers={{decrease}} 8,086}}

| footnotes = Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

|mapframe=yes

|mapframe-zoom = 13

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File:Little Kimble station geograph-3752220-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg

Little Kimble railway station is a small, single platform railway station serving the village of Little Kimble in Buckinghamshire, England.

Services

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

The station is served by trains operated by Chiltern Railways between London Marylebone and {{stnlnk|Aylesbury}}. Services mostly every 90 minutes between Princes Risborough and Aylesbury. Most services after 21:30 operate to/from London Marylebone as well as the first two trains in the morning between 5-6am. However, on weekends there is an hourly service from Aylesbury through to London Marylebone.

{{rail line |next={{rws|Monks Risborough}} |previous={{rws|Aylesbury}} |route=Chiltern Railways
Princes Risborough to Aylesbury Line|col={{Chiltern colour}}}}

{{rail line

|previous={{stnlnk|South Aylesbury Halt}}
Line open, station closed

|next={{stnlnk|Monks Risborough}}
Line and station open

|route=Western Region of British Railways
Aylesbury–Princes Risborough line

|col={{BR(W) colour}}

}}

History

The Wycombe Railway opened the line from Princes Risborough to Aylesbury on 1 October 1863. The Great Western Railway took over the Wycombe Railway in 1867 and opened Little Kimble station in 1872. The station building once had ornate stone chimneys, and was identical to the "up" platform building at {{rws|Kings Sutton}}.

The station was transferred from the Western Region of British Rail to the London Midland Region on 24 March 1974.{{cite journal |editor1-first=J.N. |editor1-last=Slater |date=May 1974 |title=Notes and News: Transfer of Marylebone-Banbury services |journal=Railway Magazine |volume=120 |issue=877 |publisher=IPC Transport Press Ltd |location=London |issn=0033-8923 |page=248 }}

In 1998 Little Kimble received the British Royal Train. The G8 Summit was held in Birmingham that year and the wives of the G8 countries' leaders, including Cherie Blair and Hillary Clinton, were taken to Chequers via the Royal Train and Little Kimble, which is the nearest station to Chequers. The train reversed at Princes Risborough and the wives alighted at Little Kimble, whence they were transferred to Chequers via limousine.

Little Kimble is in an area of the country where edible dormice (Glis glis) are common and, in 2010, they made their home in the ticket machine meaning that travellers could not buy their tickets.{{cite news |title=Nesting dormice to blame for broken ticket machine |url=https://metro.co.uk/2010/10/07/nesting-dormice-to-blame-for-broken-ticket-machine-537345/ |accessdate=21 December 2019 |work=Metro |date=7 October 2010 |language=en}}

References

External links

[http://www.chilternrailways.co.uk/ Chiltern Railways]
[http://railwaystations.fpic.co.uk/c99691.html Little Kimble at Railway Stations UK]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB9JlpgBp9w Little Kimble - Least Used Station in Buckinghamshire] 2017 YouTube video by Geoff Marshall about the station.

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Category:Former Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway stations

Category:Railway stations in Buckinghamshire

Category:DfT Category F2 stations

Category:Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1863

Category:Railway stations served by Chiltern Railways