Amersham station: Difference between revisions

[[File:Amersham with Marylebone - Woodford Halse stopping train geograph-2722765-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg|thumb|left|Marylebone - Woodford Halse stopping train in 1959]]

The station was opened on 1 September 1892 as part of the [[Metropolitan Railway]] (Met) extension from Chalfont Road (now Chalfont & Latimer) to Aylesbury.<ref name=culgmetropolitan>{{cite web | url=http://www.davros.org/rail/culg/metropolitan.html | work=Clive's Underground Line Guides | title=Metropolitan line | last=Feather | first=Clive |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140830093431/http://www.davros.org/rail/culg/metropolitan.html |archive-date=30 August 2014}}</ref> On 12 March 1922, its name was changed to "Amersham & Chesham Bois", but the original name was restored during 1937.

 

From 16 March 1899, the [[Great Central Railway]] served the station through its [[Great Central Main Line|extension]] to Marylebone.<ref name=GCR>{{cite web |url=http://www.greatcentraltoday.com/gcrhistory.htm |title=The Great Central Railway – History |access-date=29 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224094918/http://www.greatcentraltoday.com/gcrhistory.htm |archive-date=24 December 2013}}</ref> Consequently, the station became joint Met/GCR owned. On 1 January 1923, the GCR became part of the [[London and North Eastern Railway]] (LNER)<ref name=GCR /> as part of the [[Railways Act 1921]], and on 1 July 1933, the Met became part of the [[London Passenger Transport Board]] (LPTB), thus becoming the [[Metropolitan line]] of the [[London Underground]]. On 1 January 1948, the LNER was [[nationalisation|nationalised]], its share of the station initially coming under the control of the [[Eastern Region of British Railways]], before being transferred to the [[London Midland Region of British Railways|London Midland Region]] in 1958.<ref name=GCR />

 

On 12 September 1960, the tracks from [[Rickmansworth station|Rickmansworth]] to Amersham were [[electrification|electrified]],<ref name=culgmetropolitan /> partially fulfilling plans first proposed some thirty years earlier. The rolling stock ordered by London Underground as part of this project, the [[London Underground A60 and A62 stock|A60 stock]], is named after Amersham.

===Service changes===

When the [[British Rail brand names|sectorisation]] of British Rail took place in 1982, services to Aylesbury on what had by now become the [[London to Aylesbury Line]] came under the operation of [[Network SouthEast]]. Following the [[privatisation of British Rail]] in the early 1990s, these services have been provided by [[Chiltern Railways]].