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Buckinghamshire Railway Centre
In 1968 the London Railway Preservation Society chose Quainton Road to establish its Centre. From modest early beginnings on a few metres of weed grown track the volunteer members of the renamed Quainton Railway Society have established the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre as one of the leading steam museums in the country - covering nearly 30 acres the collection includes some 35 steam locomotives as well as examples of both diesel locomotives and multiple units. The large collection of carriages and wagons includes a 1901 coach used latterly in the Royal Train together with a specially converted vehicle from 1943 used as a mobile meeting room by Winston Churchill and General Eisenhower.
The C&PRR runs from Chinnor station, close to the beautiful Chiltern Hills and to the Vale of Aylesbury. Originally built in the 1870's to connect the towns of Watlington in Oxfordshire to Princes Risborough in Buckinghamshire,the railway operates the ex Great Western Railway branch line as a tourist attraction for both families and railway enthusiasts. A steam hauled service is provided every Sunday from April to October. Special eventsinclude Thomas the Tank Engine weekends and Santa Specials. Cream teas areserved on afternoon trains throughout the summer months.
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Chinnor Station, Station Approach, Station Road, Chinnor, Oxon. OX39 4ER
TEL:(44) 01844 353535
Kent & East Sussex Railway
Travel in Edwardian style by steam train through Weald and Marsh. From the ancient market town of Tenterden to the magical castle at Bodiam. The earliest plans for a railway for Tenterden were made in the 1850s. The South Eastern Railway proposed that their Ashford to Hastings should pass through Tenterden but a more southerly route through Appledore and Rye was chosen in 1851, largely through military influence.
The line is 10 miles long, running between Alresford and Alton in rural Hampshire, near the A31 Winchester - Farnham main road, and is just over an hour from London. The steeply-graded route means that large and powerful locomotives are the hallmark of the line, now a major tourist attraction in the South of England
