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Eaton Road, AYLESBURY, HP21 8LA

California Brook takes the excess water out of the end of the Aylesbury Arm of the Grand Union Canal at the Walton Street Basin and discharges into Bear Brook to the west of the railway station.

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm35846

This is the Chinese takeaway shop on Hampden Square. It is one of many shops situated in the square. Opposite is the community centre and behind it is the local church. Many of the staff of Wokswagon also work for the Salt & Vinegar fish and chip shop.

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm35840

California seems to have developed as the result of the construction of a printing works between Bear Brook and California Brook in Victorian times. Penn Road was the first residential street to be developed in the area, which later expanded into the massive suburban sprawl of the Southchurch estate.

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm35838

The station is the current terminus of the London to Aylesbury Line from Marylebone station via Amersham. A branch line from Princes Risborough, on the line from Marylebone to Birmingham via High Wycombe, also reaches the station. The railway first reached Aylesbury in 1863 and has had a chequered and complex history since. For example the current station buildings seen here date from 1926 when the London and North Eastern Railway had joint operating rights with the Great Western Railway, while between 1948 and 1961 the station was the terminus of the steam operated services of London Underground's Metropolitan Line! Services today are entirely London orientated. If for example you wanted to go from Aylesbury to Milton Keynes or Oxford, each about 23 miles and about 35 minutes away from Aylesbury by car, it would take a minimum of two and a half hours and a trip to London to achieve the journey by train to Milton Keynes, while the Oxford journey would involve visits to, and changes at, Princes Risborough and Banbury and take at least an hour and a half. From a train point of view in the picture in the siding on the far right is a first generation diesel multiple unit which is used for route training, while the passenger train about to depart for London is No. 165022.