Little Kimble railway station
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Little Kimble | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Location | Buckinghamshire |
| Managed by | Chiltern Railways |
| Platforms | 1 |
| Other information | |
| Station code | LTK |
| History | |
| Opened | 1872 |
| Original company | Wycombe Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway |
| Post-grouping | GW & GC Joint |
Little Kimble railway station is a small, single platform railway station of the village of Little Kimble in Buckinghamshire, England.
Services
The station is served by trains operated by Chiltern Railways between London Marylebone and Aylesbury. Services mostly operate hourly although there are some two or three hour gaps between services. An additional shuttle service operates between Princes Risborough and Aylesbury during the Monday to Friday peak periods.
| Preceding station |  National Rail
|
Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aylesbury | Chiltern Railways Princes Risborough-Aylesbury |
Monks Risborough | ||
| Historical railways | ||||
| South Aylesbury Halt Line open, station closed |
Western Region of British Railways Aylesbury–Princes Risborough line |
Monks Risborough Line and station open | ||
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 Kings Sutton.
The station was transferred from the Western Region of British Rail to the London Midland Region on 24 March 1974.[1]
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.[2]
References
- ^ Slater, J.N., ed. (May 1974). "Notes and News: Transfer of Marylebone-Banbury services". Railway Magazine. 120 (877). London: IPC Transport Press Ltd: 248. ISSN 0033-8923.
- ^ "Nesting dormice to blame for broken ticket machine". Metro. 7 October 2010. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
External links
Media related to Little Kimble railway station at Wikimedia Commons
- Train times and station information for Little Kimble railway station from National Rail
- Chiltern Railways
- Little Kimble at Railway Stations UK[permanent dead link]
- Little Kimble - Least Used Station in Buckinghamshire 2017 YouTube video by Geoff Marshall about the station.
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