IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Doddershall, AYLESBURY, HP18 0QL

Heading north-east.

This view looking south of the disused single track railway line that was once an alternative route to the London terminus at Marylebone of the Great Central Railway, see Image appears heavily overgrown with brambles and bushes. However the line was last used as recently as the mid 1990s and much of the undergrowth is superficial; there are no trees growing up through the track as can often be seen in abandoned railways that are much older.

The old GCR railway line from Ashendon Junction to Grendon Underwood Junction has been converted into an access road for the Greatmoor Energy From Waste (EFW) incinerator near Calvert. This allows HGVs carrying commercial waste to access the plant from the A41 road at Woodham. The road is single track with passing places as illustrated here.

Dismantled Railway with some of the track still in place by Knapps Hook Farm

This is the farmhouse of Knapps Hook Farm which lies back from the C road that runs between Kingswood on the A41 and the Edgcott to Quainton road. Knapps Hook Wood is behind the camera about 1/2 km away on the other side of the C road.

This disused and overgrown single track railway line was once an alternative route to the London terminus at Marylebone of the Great Central Railway, which when it opened in 1899 was the last main line twin track railway to be built, see Image Until the mid 90s this line was used for freight. The brick and girder bridge carries the C road that runs between Kingswood on the A41 and the Greatmoor-Quainton road.

This disused and overgrown single track railway line was once the Great Central Railway, which when it opened in 1899 was the last main line twin track railway to be built. This section of the line was constructed to provide an alternative route to the London terminus at Marylebone via High Wycombe instead of sharing the line with the Metropolitan Railway via Aylesbury. The track continues as far as the A41 and the site of the former Akeman Street station 2km to the south. Until the mid 90s a weekly freight train used this line to serve a fertiliser depot just north of the A41. Further south the track was dismantled in the late 1960s.

This is the east side of Knapps Hook Farm which lies back from the C road that runs between Kingswood and the Greatmoor-Quainton road, and which is on the other side of the farm buildings.

This is the same place as Image from 2007 (see for railway info.) The old rail route has been transformed into an access road to a new waste processing works which is the building in the distance on the left.