Claydon railway station

Claydon
Claydon railway station in 2009
Location
Place	Claydon, Buckinghamshire
Area	Aylesbury Vale
Grid reference	SP710263
Operations
Original company	Buckinghamshire Railway
Pre-grouping	LNWR
Post-grouping	LMS
Platforms	2
History
Key dates	Opened 1850 Closed 1 Jan 1968
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Claydon railway station is a former railway station serving the village of Steeple Claydon in Buckinghamshire.

Claydon Junction

Claydon Junction, about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) east of Claydon station and about 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) north of Calvert railway station, is where the former Great Central Main Line met the Varsity Line (Oxford/Cambridge Line). The Great Central closed north of here in 1966, leaving the section via Quainton to Aylesbury open as the Aylesbury branch of the Varsity Line.

51°55′29″N 1°00′35″W / 51.92480°N 1.00984°W / 51.92480; -1.00984

Future: HS2

HS2 Ltd (on behalf of HM Government) plans to route High Speed 2 (HS2) here along the Great Central route.^[1][2] Land adjacent to the junction is (as of September 2010) the preferred location for the [centrally located, major] 'Infrastructure Maintenance Depot' serving HS2.^[3] The former Varsity Line, which HS2 Ltd's consulants Arup assumes will have reopened at least as far as the West Coast Main Line at Bletchley, will be used to supply the depot.^[3]

Present day

Today Claydon L&NE junction is used for binliner (containerised domestic waste) and spoil trains going to the landfill site at Calvert and moving empty coaching stock. The East West Rail Consortium may reopen the station and the Varsity line from Oxford to Bletchley including the Aylesbury branch within 20 years.

Routes

[Legend Brackley on Verney Junction Branch Finmere Varsity Line (Freight) Claydon Junction Calvert Calvert Waste Facility Grendon Underwood Jn.

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Marsh Gibbon and Poundon Line and station closed		London and North Western Railway Varsity Line		Verney Junction Line and station closed
Calvert Line and station closed		British Railways Varsity Line (Aylesbury Branch)

A 1911 Railway Clearing House map of railways in the vicinity of Claydon

1. ^ HS2 route: Quainton to Greatmoor Farm
2. ^ Greatmoor Farm to Moat Farm via Calvert and Twyford
3. ^ ^{a b} HS2 Infrastructure Maintenance Depot

Coordinates: 51°55′50″N 0°58′08″W / 51.93069°N 0.96880°W / 51.93069; -0.96880