Aylesbury railway station
Aylesbury 
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| Location | |
| Place | Aylesbury |
| Local authority | District of Aylesbury Vale |
| Coordinates | 51°48′50″N 0°48′54″W / 51.813903°N 0.815102°WCoordinates: 51°48′50″N 0°48′54″W / 51.813903°N 0.815102°W |
| Grid reference | SP817134 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | AYS |
| Managed by | Chiltern Railways |
| Number of platforms | 3 |
| DfT category | D |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 1.061 million |
| 2012/13 |
 1.069 million |
| 2013/14 |
1.104 million |
| 2014/15 |
1.134 million |
| 2015/16 |
1.158 million |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 1 October 1863 |
| Original company | Wycombe Railway |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Aylesbury from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Aylesbury railway station is a railway station in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England. It is a major stop on the London to Aylesbury Line from London Marylebone via Amersham. It is 38 miles (61 km) from Aylesbury to Marylebone. A branch line from Princes Risborough on the Chiltern Main Line terminates at the station. It was the terminus for LUL's Metropolitan line until the service was cut back to Amersham in 1961. The station was also known as Aylesbury Town in BR days from circa 1948 until the 1960s.
The first station on the site was opened in 1863 by the Wycombe Railway, which in 1867 was taken over by the Great Western Railway. In 1868 the Aylesbury & Buckingham Railway (later part of the Metropolitan Railway) reached Aylesbury.
When opened, the line to Aylesbury from Princes Risborough was broad gauge. To avoid mixed gauge track when the standard gauge Aylesbury and Buckingham arrived at the station in 1868, the section to Princes Risborough was converted to standard gauge, and therefore until the rest of the Wycombe Railway was converted in 1870 there was no access to the rest of the GWR system. The GWR provided motive power and trains to both the Wycombe Railway and the A&B, and ran a shuttle service from Princes Risborough to Verney Junction.
A broad gauge single-road engine shed was provided from the station's opening in 1863; the shed was doubled in length within a year or two, and in 1870 became a two-road shed with a lean-to added to the east side of the original shed. By 1892, with the arrival of the Metropolitan Railway, the shed was converted to a north-light two-road shed using the west wall of the original broad gauge shed and the east wall of the 1870 extension.
The Metropolitan Railway opened from Chalfont Road in 1892 to a separate station named Aylesbury (Brook Street) adjacent to the GWR station. It closed in 1894 when services were diverted to the GW station. The Great Central Railway reached Aylesbury in 1899 from Annesley Junction just north of Nottingham on its London extension line to London Marylebone.
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