Trains to Great Missenden - Station Details and further Information on Great Missenden Train Services
Great Missenden train station serves the large village of Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire, as well as the villages of Prestwood, Little Hampden and Little Missenden. The station lies on the London Marylebone-Aylesbury line and is served by Chiltern Railways trains. It is situated between Amersham and Wendover stations.
At peak times, there are up to 4 trains per hour towards London in the morning, and returning from London (towards Aylesbury) in the evening. Some of these are express services, which skip the stops shared with the Metropolitan Line nearer to London.
Journeys to Marylebone take approximately 45 minutes (35 minutes for express trains). Journeys to Aylesbury take approximately 15 minutes.
The station first opened on 1 September 1892, by the Metropolitan Railway (MetR), when the railway was extended from Chalfont Road to Aylesbury Town. The Great Central Railway served the station from 1899, connecting the station to Leicester, Nottingham, and Sheffield.
However, when the Metropolitan Line (the sucessor of the MetR) was fully electrified in the late 1950s early 1960s, a decision was made to run only as far as Amersham; one stop short of Great Missenden. This meant that Great Missenden is now only served by Mainline services. In 1966, due to the Beeching Axe, the line north of Aylesbury was closed and the station is now only served by local commuter services. Services were run by British Rail (BR) until privatisation in 1996, when Chiltern Railways took over the franchise. |