Denham railway station

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Denham railway station is a railway station between the villages of Denham and Denham Green in Buckinghamshire, England. It is on the Chiltern Main Line between West Ruislip and Denham Golf Club.

The station was built just north of Denham village as part of the Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway. Its original name as Denham — Junction for Uxbridge as it was a stop on the shuttle service between Gerrards Cross and Uxbridge High Street; the latter station has long been closed and demolished, and the branch line to it dismantled.

The original station layout had four roads: two for non-stop trains, and two with platforms for stopping services. There was a small goods yard north of the line, and a signal box at the London end of the "down" platform.

Under the London Passenger Transport Board's 1935-40 New Works Programme, Denham was to have been the terminus of the Central line's westward extension, with Central line platforms south of those on the main line. Work on the extension was postponed in World War II. The introduction of the Metropolitan Green Belt limited the expansion of the London urban area and the extension was cut back to West Ruislip. No visible signs of the extension works remain at Denham.

The station was transferred from the Western Region of British Rail to the London Midland Region on 24 March 1974.^[1]

The signal box and the through roads have been removed, and all services use the platform roads, although these have improved track alignments to allow fast running. The former goods yard is now the station car park.

The station was built with a pedestrian underpass linking the platforms, but this was inaccessible to people with impaired mobility. Further, the embankment supporting the "down" (westbound) platform and buildings was subsiding,^[when?] so the "down" platform has been relocated as an island north of the "down" road, in the gap left by the removal of the original through roads, and to provide a footbridge and lifts, similar to those at Gerrards Cross, for disabled access. The new "down" platform was opened for use in late July 2008, and the original "down" platform and buildings have been removed.

A proposed second phase, providing a third reversible track between the rear of the new platform and the existing "up" (eastbound) platform road, would improve operational flexibility by allowing stopping services to be passed by following non-stop trains.^{[citation needed]}

Monday to Saturday daytime there is an hourly service southbound to London Marylebone and northbound to Gerrards Cross. On Sundays there is an hourly service southbound to London Marylebone and northbound to Aylesbury via High Wycombe.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Denham Golf Club		Chiltern Railways London-Birmingham		West Ruislip
Preceding station		Historical railways		Following station
Denham Golf Club Line and station open		Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway		South Harefield Halt Line open, station closed
Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Terminus		Great Western Railway Uxbridge High Street branch		Uxbridge High Street Line and station closed
	Abandoned Plans
	Proposed Denham Extension
Preceding station		London Underground		Following station
Terminus		Template:LUL lines		Template:LUL stations toward Template:LUL stations

In New Tricks series 9 episode "Queen and Country" Denham station was the location used for an unspecified station in Exeter.^{[citation needed]}

• Harefield Road tube station - a station between Denham and West Ruislip that would have been built if the Central line extension to Denham had been built.
• Acton-Northolt Line

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Denham railway station.

• Train times and station information for Denham railway station from National Rail
• www.railwayarchive.org.uk
  • Denham Junction station during construction, 1903
  • Denham Junction station during construction, 1903
  • Construction of viaduct over River Thame, close to Denham, 1903

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