1930 Stock Car No. 803 at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre

The Great Train Robbery is the name given to a £ 2. 6 million train robbery ( the equivalent of around £ 40 million today ) committed on Thursday 8 August 1963 at Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn near Mentmore in Buckinghamshire, England.

* Buckinghamshire Railway, 1847

Wolverton works in Buckinghamshire had been established by the London and Birmingham Railway in the 1830s, and since 1862 ( when all locomotive works had transferred to Crewe ) had been the LNWR's carriage works.

* Buckinghamshire Railway Centre:

Category: Railway stations in Buckinghamshire

The station was fully restored and reopened as a museum, the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre.

Freight trains still use the line through the station, and passenger trains still call at the station for special events at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre.

Meanwhile, to the north of Aylesbury the Buckinghamshire Railway was being built by Sir Harry Verney.

The Buckinghamshire Railway intended to extend the line southwards to connect to their station at Aylesbury, but this extension was not built.

On 6 August 1860 the Aylesbury and Buckingham Railway ( A & B ), with the 3rd Duke ( then still Marquess of Chandos ) as chairman and Sir Harry Verney as deputy chairman, was incorporated by Act of Parliament with the object of connecting the Buckinghamshire Railway ( by now operated by the LNWR ) to Aylesbury.

The new line was connected to the Wycombe Railway's Aylesbury station, and joined the existing Buckinghamshire Railway lines at the point where the Oxford – Bletchley line and the line to Buckingham already met.

In 1873 Watkin entered negotiations to take control of the Aylesbury and Buckingham Railway and the section of the former Buckinghamshire Railway running north from Verney Junction to Buckingham.

Parliament did not share the enthusiasm of Watkin and the Duke, and in 1875 the Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire Union Railway Bill was rejected.

A connection between the Great Central Railway and the former Buckinghamshire Railway at Calvert was opened in 1942, leaving the original A & B route to Verney Junction with no purpose other than as a diversionary route.

The Quainton Railway Society ( which operates the station as the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre ) restored the main station building to its 1900 appearance.

Oxford Rewley Road railway station, the Oxford terminus of Harry Verney's Buckinghamshire Railway and of the Oxford to Cambridge Line, had closed to passengers on 1 October 1951 with all services to Oxford from then on diverted into the former GWR station at Oxford General ( the current Oxford railway station ).

In co-operation with the Science Museum Oxford Rewley Road station was dismantled in 1999, the main station building and part of the platform canopy were moved to Quainton Road for preservation with the opportunity taken to house improved visitor facilities and the main shop and office of the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre thus maintaining it as a working building.

Although the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre's steam trains run on the sidings which were disconnected from the network in 1967, the station still has a working railway line passing through it which is also used for occasional special passenger trains from Aylesbury in connection with events at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre.

Bletchley Park is an estate located in the town of Bletchley, in Buckinghamshire, England, which currently houses the National Codes Centre and the National Museum of Computing.

* Aylesbury Music Centre, an arm of the Buckinghamshire Music Service

* Queens Park Centre, in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire

The 1848 Tithe Map, drawn by surveyor WT Buckland showing the proposed route of the new road can be seen at the Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies in Aylesbury.

* Kedermister Library website at Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies ( NB: using the spelling Kederminster )

Chiltern Railways British Rail Class 121 | Class 121 ' Bubble Car ' diesel unit at Buckinghamshire Railway Centre on a shuttle service from Aylesbury railway station | Aylesbury on 3 May 2010

Buckinghamshire Railway Centre is a railway museum operated by the Quainton Railway Society Ltd. at Quainton Road railway station, in the far depths of " Metro-land ", about 5 miles ( 8 km ) west of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire.

Buckinghamshire Railway Centre is rail-connected because Quainton Road station is on the Network Rail freight-only line ( formerly a mainline used jointly by the Great Central Railway and the Metropolitan Railway through the Metropolitan and Great Central Railways Joint Committee ) which connects Aylesbury with the Bletchley to Oxford cross-country route at Claydon ( LNE ) Junction.

South African Railways 25NC Class No. 3405 at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre

British Rail Class 04 No. D2298 at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre

1930 Stock Car No. 803 at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre

* Buckinghamshire Railway Centre website.

* Buckinghamshire Railway Centre Stockbook

The line is still used for the occasional freight train, as well as special services between Aylesbury and Quainton Road for events at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre.

There were three racing stations ( Berkshire, Centre and Buckinghamshire ).

The arrests are made in London, Birmingham, and High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, in an overnight operation.

To the east of Hertfordshire is Essex, to the west is Buckinghamshire and to the north are Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

Junctions 1 – 5 are in Kent, 6 – 14 in Surrey ( passing in places through Greater London and Berkshire ), 15 – 16 are in Buckinghamshire, 17 – 24 are in Hertfordshire, 25 in Greater London ( the Hertfordshire border going around the junction's northern edge ), 26 – 28 in Essex, 29 in Greater London and 30 – 31 in Essex.

The only UK company still producing traditional parchment and vellum is William Cowley ( Est 1870 ) who are based in Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire.

Marillion are a British rock band, formed in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England, in 1979.

Rutherford and Davis ( who died in 1973 ) are interred alongside each other in the graveyard of St. James's Church, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire.

Just outside Henley, in Buckinghamshire, there are several notable private buildings:

Bucks is the abbreviation for Buckinghamshire, and both names are used interchangeably in England.

There are records of parish constables by the 17th century in the county records of Buckinghamshire ; traditionally they were elected by the parishioners, but from 1617 onwards were typically appointed by justices of the peace in each county.

Examples of this style are Harlaxton Manor in Lincolnshire ( illustration ), Mentmore Towers in Buckinghamshire and Sandringham House in Norfolk, England.

Fifteen of Scheemakers ' works — monuments, figures and busts — are in Westminster Abbey ; two were executed in collaboration with his master Delvaux: the “ Hugh Chamberlen ” ( d. 1728, and therefore perhaps produced during his first visit to London ) and “ Catherine, duchess of Buckinghamshire .” He is best known by his monument to Shakespeare ( 1740 ), but as this work was designed by Kent the responsibility must not all be laid to Scheemakers ' account.

His eldest son John Temple acquired the Stowe estate in Buckinghamshire and founded the English branch of the family from whom the Viscounts Cobham, the Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos and the Earls Temple of Stowe are descended.

They are situated above the village of West Wycombe, at the southern edge of the Chiltern Hills near High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, Southeast England.

Compared to other towns in south Buckinghamshire, there are fewer detached and owner-occupied houses and a higher proportion of social rental accommodation.

The various colours of the Chesham Town crest, created in 1974, are the same as those of Buckinghamshire County arms.

The precise origins of the breed are unclear, but raising white ducks became popular in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England in the 18th century owing to the demand for white feathers as a filler for quilts.

In the English Midlands, specifically Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Leicestershire and east Warwickshire, nine skittles are placed on a hooded table, hence the name " hood skittles ".

The Chilterns cover an area of and are at their widest and stretch in a southwest to northeast diagonal from Goring-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, through Buckinghamshire, via Dunstable Downs and Deacon Hill in Bedfordshire, to near Hitchin in Hertfordshire.

Some authorities / areas operate an opt-in system, whilst others ( such as Buckinghamshire ) operate an opt-out system where all pupils are entered unless parents decide to opt out.

The crown and three seaxes on a red background are the arms of Middlesex County Council and the chained swan on a black and red background is associated with Buckinghamshire.

; Barracuda Group: Varsity, Barracuda Bars, Juniper Inns, Cape and Smith & Jones are owned by the Barracuda Group, which is based in Marlow, Buckinghamshire.

The company's headquarters are in Higher Denham, Buckinghamshire, England with other locations in France, Italy and United States.