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Quainton, AYLESBURY, HP22 4DB

The crossroads south of Quainton Road, ominous clouds overhead.

A Morgan three-wheeler approaches the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre from the south, the driver probably relieved those clouds haven't released their load...yet.

Cyclists approaching the crossroads south of Quainton Road.

Looking towards the crossroads south of the railway. A footpath marker for the Brill Tramway walk on the left.

Looking from the crossroads towards the bridge over the railway at Quainton Road. To the right is the former line of the road which crossed the railway via a level crossing before the bridge was constructed in 1896. The road sign warns of pedestrians as there is no footway over the bridge, although there is just about enough verge to stand out of the roadway.

Looking westward from the road overbridge near Quainton Road. Blackthorn in flower in the hedgerow.

This line was opened in 1868 by the Aylesbury and Buckingham Railway and absorbed into the Metropolitan Railway in 1891. It eventually closed for passenger traffic in 1963 but is still open today for freight transfers of household waste from London to the Calvert landfill site. The original station arrangements here were that Station Road crossed the line by a level crossing with the original Quaintonroad station on the north-west side of the level crossing. However in 1896 the Metropolitan Railway rebuilt the station to the south-east of the level crossing with the crossing being replaced by the current bridge from which this photo was taken. While the bridge was built over the former station the rough land to the left in this photograph would have housed the end of the platform and a couple of sidings.

Off the road to Quainton the tramway trail towards Waddesdon

This single track railway line, which was once part of the Great Central Railway, the last main line twin track railway to be built, is now used by freight trains from Brentford in London carrying containerised household waste to the landfill site at Calvert, see Image, which is 6.5 km behind the camera. Here looking south-east, the road bridge in the distance is for the C road between Westcott and Quainton. Beyond the bridge can just be seen Quainton Road station, where the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre is based, http://www.bucksrailcentre.org/about_us.html. The preserved railway operates short stretches of track within the 25 acre centre, but there are no passenger services between Quainton Road and the town of Aylesbury, which is 9km further on.