Wotton (GCR) railway station

Wotton
Location
Place	Wotton Underwood
Area	Aylesbury Vale
Grid reference	SP695152
Operations
Original company	Great Central Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Central Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Platforms	2
History
2 April 1906	Station opens
7 December 1953	Station closes
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
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Wotton was a railway station at Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire, on the Great Central Railway's link line between Calvert and Ashendon Junction.^[1]

History

The station was opened by the Great Central Railway on 2 April 1906,^[2] becoming part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. It was built to the south of the point where the GCR crossed the Brill Tramway near its Wotton station.^[3] It was closed on 7 December 1953.^[2]^[4]

Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.
British Railways Pre-Grouping Atlas and Gazetteer (Map) (5th ed.). 1" = 8 miles. Cartography by W. Philip Conolly. Ian Allan. 1976. ISBN 0-7110-0320-3.
Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (November 2006). Aylesbury to Rugby. Midland Main Lines. Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN 1-904474-91-8.

A 1911 Railway Clearing House map of railways in the vicinity of Wotton

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Akeman Street Line and station closed		Great Central Railway London Extension		Haddenham Line and station closed

Closed railway stations in Buckinghamshire

Banbury to Verney Junction Branch Line	Fulwell & Westbury Water Stratford Halt Radclive Halt Buckingham Padbury Verney Junction

Metropolitan Railway	Verney Junction Winslow Road Granborough Road

Varsity Line	Winslow Swanbourne Claydon Marsh Gibbon and Poundon

Brill Tramway	Waddesdon Road Westcott Wotton Wood Siding Brill

Wycombe Railway	Bledlow Loudwater Wooburn Green West Wycombe

Great Central Railway	Akeman Street Waddesdon Calvert Wotton

Newport Pagnell branch	Bradwell Great Linford Newport Pagnell

Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway	Brill and Ludgershall Dorton Halt Haddenham Ilmer Halt

Other lines	Aylesbury High Street Bledlow Bridge Halt Denbigh Hall Olney Penn South Aylesbury Halt Twyford Bridge Halt Castlethorpe

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