Gerrards Cross railway station
Gerrards Cross 
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Gerrards Cross
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| Location | |
| Place | Gerrards Cross |
| Local authority | District of South Bucks |
| Grid reference | TQ001887 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | GER |
| Managed by | Chiltern Railways |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| 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 |
 1.149 million |
| 2012/13 |
1.271 million |
| 2013/14 |
1.339 million |
| 2014/15 |
1.407 million |
| 2015/16 |
1.461 million |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 1906 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Gerrards Cross from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Gerrards Cross railway station is a railway station in the village of Gerrards Cross in Buckinghamshire, England. It is on the Chiltern Main Line between Denham Golf Club and Seer Green and Jordans.
The Monday - Friday off-peak service consists of:
The station consists of two platforms, with a turn back siding just west of the station to allow trains to terminate/start at Gerrards Cross.
As recently as 2011 a single weekday service to London Paddington started from Gerrards Cross, running non-stop from West Ruislip. An equivalent service departed from Paddington, and ran non-stop to Gerrards Cross. These trains traversed the now-rarely used former main line between Northolt Junction and Old Oak Common Junction, in many places reduced to a single track. This section is used more frequently by freight and waste trains, and also diversions during engineering works. These services now operate only between either South Ruislip or West Ruislip and Paddington.
The station was built as part of the Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway and was opened in April 1906 as Gerrards Cross for the Chalfonts. It is in a deep cutting that was dug for the line to maintain a very shallow maximum gradient, to allow for fast running with steam-hauled trains. The original station layout was four-track, with two through roads and two platform roads. There was a small goods yard north of the line. This has now been removed, but services from Marylebone that terminate at Gerrards Cross use the siding there.
The new line and station effectively created the present Gerrards Cross; the original settlement lay for the most part along the Oxford Road.
The station was transferred from the Western Region of British Railways to the London Midland Region on 24 March 1974.
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