Thame railway station
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England
Thame | |||||
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.JPG) Station in 1959. | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Thame, South Oxfordshire England | ||||
| Coordinates | 51°44′28″N 0°58′09″W / 51.7411°N 0.9693°W | ||||
| Grid reference | SP713052 | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Status | Disused | ||||
| History | |||||
| Original company | Wycombe Railway | ||||
| Pre-grouping | Great Western Railway | ||||
| Post-grouping | Great Western Railway | ||||
| Key dates | |||||
| 1862 | Station opened | ||||
| 1963 | passenger service withdrawn | ||||
| 1991 | station closed for freight | ||||
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Thame railway station was a station on the Wycombe Railway serving the town of Thame in Oxfordshire. It was opened in 1862 as the terminus of an extension from High Wycombe via Princes Risborough The cost of construction of the station building was £2,201 1s 5d additional general works were £2,137 8s 8d. In 1864 the line was extended from Thame to Oxford. The station was built with a train shed over its platforms.
As originally built Thame station only had a single platform with an engine shed on the south side on the location where later cattle pens were built. Some time between 1864 and 1893 the engine shed was demolished and a second platform built. The trainshed roof was extended on one side to provide a cover over the new platform.
Thame and the first station at High Wycombe were the same in design and dimensions, although different construction materials were used for each: the train-shed walls at Thame were timber,[1] while Wycombe's were flint and brick.
The station was provided with a 28 lever signal box, with ETB using Tyer's key token machines in operation.[2]
