Westcott railway station
Westcott railway station was built by the Duke of Buckingham in 1871. The station was named after the village of Westcott, which at the time of the railway’s opening had a population of about 150. The name was changed to Westcott after the station was renamed after the nearby village of Waddesdon, which was also named after Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild’s estate at Waddersdon Manor.
About Westcott railway station in brief
Westcott railway station was built by the Duke of Buckingham in 1871 as part of a short horse-drawn tramway. The line was intended for the transport of goods from and around his extensive estates in Buckinghamshire and to connect the Duke’s estates to the Aylesbury and Buckingham Railway at Quainton Road. A lobbying campaign by residents of the town of Brill led to the tramway being converted for passenger use and extended to Brill railway station in 1872. The operation of the line was taken over by the Metropolitan Railway in 1899, and Westcott station became a part of the London Underground in 1933. It was closed in 1935, and the station building and its associated house are the only significant buildings from the Brill Tramway to survive other than the former junction station at Quainsbury Road. The station was named after the village of Westcott, which at the time of the railway’s opening had a population of about 150. It is one of only a handful of stations in the UK to have been named after a village or town after the opening of a railway line.
The name was changed to Westcott after the station was renamed after the nearby village of Waddesdon, which was also named after Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild’s estate at Waddersdon Manor. The current station building was built in the 1930s, and is located on the site of the former Waddsdon Manor, which is now a Grade II listed building. It has a single platform with a small wooden station building, and was immediately south of the village’s village centre. The platform was initially built with a single low wooden platform, primarily intended for loading and unloading freight. Services on the line were very slow, and using poor quality locomotives, initially limited to 5 miles per hour. In the 1890s it was planned to extend the tramways to Oxford, but the scheme was abandoned. After the transfer of Metropolitan Railway to public ownership to become the Metropolitan line of London Transport in 1933, Westcott was closed.
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