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Denham Railway StationDenham station is on the Chiltern Line out of Marylebone towards High Wycombe. The station was built just to the north of Denham village as part of the construction of the Great Western/Great Central Joint line from Grendon Underwood junction to Marylebone via High Wycombe. Its original name was "Denham - Junction for Uxbridge", as it was a stop on the shuttle service between Gerrards Cross and Uxbridge High Street stations; the latter has long been closed and demolished. The station layout was characteristic of the period, with four roads - two aligned for fast running straight through, and two platforms for stopping services. A small goods yard was provided to the north of the line, the whole supervised from a signal box on the London end of the down platform. Under the LPTB's 1935-40 New Works programme, the station was to have been the western terminus of the Central Line, with extra platforms to the south of those for the main line. After the Second World War this extension was cut back to West Ruislip, leaving no visible sign at Denham of the extension works. The signal box and the through roads have long gone, and all services use the platform roads, although these have improved track alignments to allow fast running. Chiltern Railways have indicated that improvements along the line may see the four roads reinstated at some future date, both here and at other stations where space permits. The former goods yard is now a heavily-used station car park.
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