Gerrards Cross railway station

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 and.ServiceThe Monday - Friday off-peak service consists of:4 trains per hour to 1 train per hour to 1 train per hour to 1 train per hour to 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 started from Gerrards Cross, running non-stop from. 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.HistoryThe station was built as part of the Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway and was opened on 2 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.