Heritage route
Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway
Chinnor → Princes Risborough · England
A surviving piece of the Great Western’s Watlington branch at the foot of the Chilterns, reopened to passengers in 1994 and reconnected to the main line at Princes Risborough in 2016.
- Distance
- 7 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h (round trip)
- Top speed
- 40 km/h
This was part of the Great Western’s Watlington branch, which lost its passenger trains in 1957; the section from Chinnor to Princes Risborough survived on cement traffic until 1989. Volunteers formed an association that year, ran their first works train in 1991 and began carrying passengers in August 1994, reaching Thame Junction by 1996. The line was reconnected to the main line at Princes Risborough on 21 February 2016, and its trains have used the rebuilt platform 4 there since 2018.
Stations
- 1 kmChinnor
- 6 kmPrinces Risborough
The stations OpenStreetMap maps along this line, in order along the line as drawn here, with the distance along it. Not every train stops at every station.
Along the way
- Chinnor station
- The foot of the Chiltern escarpment
- Horsenden Lane
- Thame Junction
- Princes Risborough platform 4
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 164313: the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Questions and answers
How long is the Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway?
The Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway runs 7 km from Chinnor to Princes Risborough.
How long does the Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway take?
Over the 7 km, the fastest scheduled journey is ≈ 1 h (round trip). The line's top service speed is 40 km/h.
Who runs the Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway?
Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway, with heritage diesel & steam.
How old is the Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway?
The line has been in service since 1994. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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