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Granborough Road
Station site in 2015
Granborough Road is located in Buckinghamshire
Granborough Road
Granborough Road
Location of Granborough Road in Buckinghamshire
LocationGranborough
Local authorityBuckinghamshire
Grid referenceSP745242
Number of platforms2
Railway companies
Original companyAylesbury and Buckingham Railway
Pre-groupingMetropolitan and Great Central Joint Railway
Post-groupingMetropolitan and Great Central Joint Railway
Key dates
23 September 1868(1868-09-23)Opened asGrandborough Road
6 October 1920RenamedGranborough Road
6 July 1936(1936-07-06)Station closed
Other information
Coordinates51°54′42″N0°55′03″W/ 51.9116°N 0.9176°W/51.9116; -0.9176
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Granborough Road railway station(initiallyGrandborough Road) was a station serving the village ofGranborough,to the north ofQuaintoninBuckinghamshire,England.[1]

History

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The station was opened by theAylesbury and Buckingham Railway(A&BR) on 23 September 1868[2][3][4]as part of its 12.75-mile (20.52-kilometre) route fromAylesburytoVerney Junctionwhere it joined theBuckinghamshire Railway'sOxford to Bletchley line.[5][6][7]The line wassingle trackand worked from the start by theGreat Western Railway,which provided a service of three trains each way daily.[6][8]The A&BR, which had for some time been in a parlous financial state, was absorbed by theMetropolitan Railwaywith effect from 1 July 1891.[7][9][10][11]From 2 April 1906, all Metropolitan services north of Harrow South Junction to Verney Junction were run by theMetropolitan and Great Central Joint Railway;this continued until 6 July 1936 when theLondon Passenger Transport Board,which had taken over the Metropolitan in 1933, withdrew local passenger services as an economy measure.[12][10][9][13]Through services ceased entirely on 7 September 1947 and the route closed.[14][12][10][15]

Whilst open, this station was accessed via a branch line off the formerGreat Central Main Linewith the junction being just to the north ofQuainton Road.The branch line continued throughWinslow Roadand ended at a terminating platform atVerney Junction.

Today very little remains of this station, thepermanent waybetween Quainton Road and Verney Junction having long ago been lifted. The site is now a farmer's field and although a bit of platform does remain, the track bed itself is now a route forpylons.

Despite being over 30 miles from London and not underground, the association with the Metropolitan line means this station is considered to be one of theclosed London Underground stations.It is briefly referred to as such in the 2012James BondfilmSkyfallwhen Bond spots the name embedded in a cypher.[16]

Routes

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A 1911Railway Clearing HouseJunction Diagram showing railways in the vicinity of Granborough Road (upper left; shown asGrandborough Road)


Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Winslow Road Metropolitan Railway
Verney Junction Branch 		Quainton Road

Notes

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  1. ^"Station Name: Granborough Road".Disused Stations.UK.Retrieved17 May2019.
  2. ^Quick (2009),p. 415.
  3. ^Butt (1995),p. 252.
  4. ^Davies & Grant (1984),p. 84.
  5. ^Simpson (1985),p. 8.
  6. ^abOppitz (2000),p. 30.
  7. ^abSimpson (1994),p. 133.
  8. ^Simpson (1985),p. 9.
  9. ^abAwdry (1990),p. 207.
  10. ^abcLeleux (1984),p. 37.
  11. ^Davies & Grant (1984),p. 85.
  12. ^abDavies & Grant (1984),p. 89.
  13. ^Clinker (1978),p. 149.
  14. ^Mitchell & Smith (2006),fig. 54.
  15. ^Oppitz (2000),p. 38.
  16. ^Curran, Kevin (2 December 2012)."Viewpoint: James Bond fails the tech test in Skyfall".BBC News.UK:BBC.Retrieved17 May2019.

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