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Greenwood Avenue, CHINNOR, OX39 4HL

Houses in a cul-de-sac viewed from the junction with Glynswood.

The Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway took over the line in January 1990 after the last British Rail train ran to Chinnor Cement Works. The line originally ran from Princes Risborough to Watlington.

57XX class Pannier tank 9682 waits while passengers board at Chinnor Station on the preserved Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway.

A train (Engine 9682) waiting to go at Chinnor Station.

Chinnor station is the headquarters of the preserved Chinnor and Princes Risborough railway line, known as the Icknield Line http://www.cprra.co.uk/. Chinnor was originally an intermediate station on the branch line which ran from Princes Risborough to Watlington, and which opened in 1872. However falling traveller numbers made it an early pre-Beeching closure and the line closed to passenger traffic in 1957, although freight traffic to Chinnor Cement Works continued until 1989. In the 1970s the station and platform at Chinnor were demolished by British Railways, so the railway preservation company have had to completely rebuild them. Although the line currently stops short of entering Princes Risborough the railway are hopeful of securing access soon. Here pannier tank engine 57xx 0-6-0PT 9682, built at Swindon in 1949, simmers gently on an sunny early spring afternoon, awaiting its next call of duty. Despite the classic Great Western Railway scene this engine post-dated the Nationalization of the railways in 1948 so only ever wore British Railways livery.

This station, including the building, has been completely constructed from new by the Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway as their current southern terminus.

The run round loop and sidings of the Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway. The line used to continue to Watlington, although the original intention was to continue the construction on to Wallingford and thus provide a through route joining the GWR main line at Cholsey. The line from Princes Risborough to Watlington was closed to passengers in 1957 and from 1961 until 1989 it only survived to serve the now defunct cement works just out of the picture to the left. It is now operated as a heritage railway.

The Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway took over the line in January 1990 after the last British Rail train ran to Chinnor Cement Works. The line originally ran from Princes Risborough to Watlington.

A big area of new housing has been built on the site of a former cement works. The kiln in the street name is still there, in a bit of a state, at the other end of the road. Image