QUAINTON
ROAD
Quainton Road has been restored to the appearance
of a 1930s Metropolitan Line station by the Buckinghamshire Railway
Centre, who are based there. The station and its accompanying
museum are of considerable charm and character and should be
considered an essential visit. Getting there is not so easy however:
special trains are run occasionally during the year from Aylesbury
but apart from that, one is reliant on buses or private transport.
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here for their website.

Station Road: approaching Quainton Road station from Quainton
village (the station is down the turning on the left). The original
course of the road was straight; the route of it is clear here.
The road now veers off to the right to ascend the bridge that
replaced the level crossing.
The station building/ticket office/waiting room.

Southbound platform.
Southbound platform looking north.
Southbound platform looking south.
Southern view.
One freight train a day uses (or is booked to use) this line.
The ticket office/waiting room is on the left. The
smaller structure on the right hand (northbound) platform is
the waiting room for the Brill branch platform, whose track is
just visible on the right hand side of the photo.

Northbound platform looking south.

Northbound platform looking north.
The waiting room seen here is for the Brill tramway branch line.

Southbound platform.

Northbound platform looking south.
View northwards from the Brill tramway branch line
platform. The disused branch to Verney Junction veers off from
the main line after the bridge seen in the background.
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