Princes Risborough to Aylesbury Line

The Princes Risborough to Aylesbury Line is a rural branch line from Princes Risborough to Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, England.

The line serves the following places.
*Princes Risborough
*Monks Risborough
*Little Kimble
*Aylesbury

Passenger services on the line are operated by Chiltern Railways.

The line was built in 1863 as the extension of the Wycombe Railway (later GWR). In 1906, the line became the branch line of what is now called the Chiltern Main Line.

The line is single track throughout. It was singled as a consequence to the closures of the Great Central Main Line, thus diverting the majority of the Aylesbury-Paddington trains via the London to Aylesbury Line. This would mean that traffic on the line would be reduced drastically. The maximum speed of the line is 40mph as a result of it being singled.

The line is regularly used by freight services operated by Freightliner. The trains, referred to as 'binliners', carry waste from London refuse depots to a dumping site at Calvert, near the site of the old GCR station. As a result, during the Evergreen 2 project proposed by Chiltern Railways, the line was resignalled with two new signals at Little Kimble, one for each direction of travel. These signals allow two trains to travel in the same direction, thus allowing a passenger service to follow the freight train, or vice versa.

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