1962 - Cold Day at Little Kimble..
Collett 64XX Class 0-6-0PT 6403 leaving Little Kimble station on an Aylesbury - Princes Risborough service, on a freezing day in February 1962.
The loco was withdrawn in October 1962, and scrapped in February 1964. Three examples have been preserved.
In recent years it was the last to be operated by first-generation BR DMUs - Class 121 - which were finally withdrawn from service by Chiltern Railways in 2017.
This line was the first to reach Aylesbury Town station, as a broad-gauge branch from Princes Risborough, opened in 1863, although the London and Birmingham (later LNWR) line from Cheddington to another Aylesbury station - now completely vanished - had been opened as far back as 1839.
The old GWR-style nameboard survived into the 1980s, propped up against the back fence, and is now preserved in the museum at Quainton.
Today (2020) the station is still open, and the station building still exists, but as a private dwelling, with the large chimneys seen here removed.
Restored from a faded misaligned grainy cyan/yellow-colour-shifted original..
Original slide - property of Robert Gadsdon
1962 - Cold Day at Little Kimble..
Collett 64XX Class 0-6-0PT 6403 leaving Little Kimble station on an Aylesbury - Princes Risborough service, on a freezing day in February 1962.
The loco was withdrawn in October 1962, and scrapped in February 1964. Three examples have been preserved.
In recent years it was the last to be operated by first-generation BR DMUs - Class 121 - which were finally withdrawn from service by Chiltern Railways in 2017.
This line was the first to reach Aylesbury Town station, as a broad-gauge branch from Princes Risborough, opened in 1863, although the London and Birmingham (later LNWR) line from Cheddington to another Aylesbury station - now completely vanished - had been opened as far back as 1839.
The old GWR-style nameboard survived into the 1980s, propped up against the back fence, and is now preserved in the museum at Quainton.
Today (2020) the station is still open, and the station building still exists, but as a private dwelling, with the large chimneys seen here removed.
Restored from a faded misaligned grainy cyan/yellow-colour-shifted original..
Original slide - property of Robert Gadsdon