Quainton, Buckinghamshire - Bucks Railway Centre - local postcard

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• Picture / Image:  Bucks Railway Centre, Quainton, Buckinghamshire
• Publisher:  Buckinghamshire Federation of Women's Institutes
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Buckinghamshire Railway Centre is a railway museum operated by the Quainton Railway Society Ltd. at Quainton Road railway station, about 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire. The site is divided into two halves which are joined by two foot-bridges, one of which provides wheelchair access. Each side has a demonstration line with various workshop buildings as well as museum buildings.

In 1962, the London Railway Preservation Society was formed, buying up a series of fomer London Underground vehicles and collectables, as well as holding the largest collection of London and North Western Railway memorabilia.^[1] These were held at various sites around London, mainly two government depots at Luton and Bishop's Stortford,^[2] making both access, restoration and preservation difficult.^[1]

While other closed stations on the former MR lines north of Aylesbury were generally demolished or sold,^[3] in 1969 the Quainton Railway Society was formed to operate a working museum at the station.^[4] On 24 April 1971 the society absorbed the London Railway Preservation Society, taking custody of its collection of historic railway equipment.^[5]

The station was maintained in working order, used as a bookshop and ticket office.^[6] The extensive sidings were still intact, and although disconnected from the mainline in 1967,^[7] were used for locomotive restoration work.^[4] The Society eventually restored the main station building to its 1900 appearance, renaming the site the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre.^[8] A smaller building on the former Brill platform, once a shelter for passengers waiting for Brill and down trains, was used first as a store then as a shop for a number of years before its current use to house an exhibit on the history of the Brill Tramway. A former London Transport building from Wembley Park was dismantled and re-erected at Quainton Road to serve as a maintenance shed.^[9]

Although the BRC's trains are run on the former station sidings, the station still has a working Network Rail line passing through it. this connects Aylesbury with the Bletchley to Oxford cross-country route at Claydon (LNE) Junction. Regular landfill freight trains traverse the line from waste transfer depots in Greater London to the former brick pits at Calvert.^[10]

In 1988, the station briefly came back into passenger use, with the introduction of special Christmas shopping services between Aylesbury and Bletchley. These Chiltern Railways operated services ran on Saturdays only, and stopped at Quainton Road.^[4] This heralded the stations occasional use for passenger trains from Aylesbury in connection with events at the Centre.

Today, with an extensively redeveloped site on both sides of the working mainline, BRC houses around 170 items of locomotives and rolling stock, in buildings dating from 1874 to the 1960s. The adjacent World War 2 warehouses of the Ministry of Food Buffer Depot in the former downside yard have been taken over to display many items awaiting restoration, whilst the Society have added a member's reference library.

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=buckinghamshire

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

postage condition=unposted