Little Kimble railway station

Little Kimble railway station is a small, single platform railway station serving the village of Little Kimble in Buckinghamshire, England.

Little Kimble
General information
Location	Little Kimble, Buckinghamshire England
Grid reference	SP823066
Managed by	Chiltern Railways
Platforms	1
Other information
Station code	LTK
Classification	DfT category F2
History
Opened	1872
Original company	Wycombe Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway
Post-grouping	GW & GC Joint
Passengers
2018/19	5,572
2019/20	7,066
2020/21	3,742
2021/22	8,460
2022/23	9,896
Location
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

The station approach

Services

A 1911 Railway Clearing House map of railways in the vicinity of Little Kimble

The station is served by trains operated by Chiltern Railways between London Marylebone and Aylesbury. Services mostly every 90 minutes between Princes Risborough and Aylesbury. Most services after 21:30 operate to/from London Marylebone as well as the first two trains in the morning between 5-6am. However, on weekends there is an hourly service from Aylesbury through to London Marylebone.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Aylesbury		Chiltern Railways Princes Risborough to Aylesbury Line		Monks Risborough
	Historical railways
South Aylesbury Halt Line open, station closed		Western Region of British Railways Aylesbury–Princes Risborough line		Monks Risborough Line and station open

History

The Wycombe Railway opened the line from Princes Risborough to Aylesbury on 1 October 1863. The Great Western Railway took over the Wycombe Railway in 1867 and opened Little Kimble station in 1872. The station building once had ornate stone chimneys, and was identical to the "up" platform building at Kings Sutton.

The station was transferred from the Western Region of British Rail to the London Midland Region on 24 March 1974.^[1]

In 1998 Little Kimble received the British Royal Train. The G8 Summit was held in Birmingham that year and the wives of the G8 countries' leaders, including Cherie Blair and Hillary Clinton, were taken to Chequers via the Royal Train and Little Kimble, which is the nearest station to Chequers. The train reversed at Princes Risborough and the wives alighted at Little Kimble, whence they were transferred to Chequers via limousine.

Little Kimble is in an area of the country where edible dormice (Glis glis) are common and, in 2010, they made their home in the ticket machine meaning that travellers could not buy their tickets.^[2]

References

1. Slater, J.N., ed. (May 1974). "Notes and News: Transfer of Marylebone-Banbury services". Railway Magazine. 120 (877). London: IPC Transport Press Ltd: 248. ISSN 0033-8923.
2. "Nesting dormice to blame for broken ticket machine". Metro. 7 October 2010. Retrieved 21 December 2019.

External links

Media related to Little Kimble railway station at Wikimedia Commons

• Train times and station information for Little Kimble railway station from National Rail
• Chiltern Railways
• Little Kimble at Railway Stations UK^{[permanent dead link]}
• Little Kimble - Least Used Station in Buckinghamshire 2017 YouTube video by Geoff Marshall about the station.

51.752°N 0.808°W / 51.752; -0.808