Princes Risborough North signal box: Difference between revisions

From Bradshaw, the companion guide to On Our Lines
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{{Infobox signal cabin
{{Infobox signal cabin
|name = Princes Risborough North Signal Box
|name = Princes Risborough North
|opened = 1905
|operator = [[Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway]]
|operator = [[Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway]]
}}
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The box was built in 1904/5 as part of the Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway's “Bicester cut off” route between Princes Risborough (then on the Wycombe Railway route from High Wycombe via Thame to Oxford) and Aynho (on the Oxford – Banbury line). This completed the GWR's “North Main Line” from Paddington to Birmingham and on to Liverpool and Birkenhead. Previously trains had to be routed via Oxford.


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Latest revision as of 01:25, 30 May 2021

Princes Risborough North
Overview
Opened1905
OperatorChinnor and Princes Risborough Railway

The box was built in 1904/5 as part of the Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway's “Bicester cut off” route between Princes Risborough (then on the Wycombe Railway route from High Wycombe via Thame to Oxford) and Aynho (on the Oxford – Banbury line). This completed the GWR's “North Main Line” from Paddington to Birmingham and on to Liverpool and Birkenhead. Previously trains had to be routed via Oxford.