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Denham is a stop on the Chiltern Main Line in Buckinghamshire between West Ruislip and Denham Golf Club. |
| Chiltern 165 030 departs bound for London Marylebone |
Denham was opened in 1906 as a joint venture between the Great Western and Great Central Railways. Initially the station was known as Denham - Junction for Uxbridge and was a stop on the shuttle line between Uxbridge High Street and Gerrards Cross.
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| Type: | National Rail (Chiltern Main Line) |
| Station code: | DNM |
| Opened: | 1906 |
| Platforms: | 2 |
The station buildings were built to the standard design as other stations on the line though as the station was built on an embankment it had wooden platforms to save weight [1]. Four tracks were ran through Denham until 1965 when the central through lines were removed. The goods yard was closed the year before [2].
The station is nowadays a stop on the Chiltern Main Line and managed by Chiltern Railways. However the station almost became part of the London Underground. The Central Line's Western extension programme in the 1930s was originally planned to reach Denham but due to new Green Belt legislation and financial cuts after the Second World War the extension work only made it as far as West Ruislip [3].
The main station building survives on the up platform though the down platform was replaced in 2008 with new shelters. The footbridge was also replaced at the same time.
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| Chiltern 165 019 arrives, the footbridge between the platforms can be seen in the background |
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| Chiltern 165 038 arrives with an Aylesbury bound service |
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| Main station building |
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| View from the footbridge |
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| Chiltern 165 032 arrives with a London Marylebone bound service |
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Paddington to Princes Risborough (Middleton Press, 2002) Fig. 66
[2] Ibid. Fig. 68
[3] J. Graeme Bruce & Desmond F. Coombe, The Twopenny Tube (Capital Transport, 1996) p. 60
