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Gerrards Cross Railway StationGerrards Cross railway station serves the small town of Gerrards Cross. On Chiltern Line between Denham Golf Club and Seer Green and Jordans, it is sited in a cutting, and gives fast rail access to Marylebone and to High Wycombe and Birmingham Snow Hill. The station was built as part of the construction of the GWR/GCR joint line in the years before the First World War. The cutting is particularly deep in order for the railway to meet the gradient profile requirements of the line, which defined 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. A small goods yard lay to the north of the line. This has now gone, but services which terminate at Gerrards Cross use the siding there. The new line and station virtually created the present Gerrards Cross; the original settlement lay for the most part along the Oxford Road. A development by the Tesco supermarket chain is turning the cutting on the London side of the station into a tunnel by the use of large concrete ring segments to form the tunnel profile. The space on top of these segments is to be filled in to form a ground surface on which the new supermarket can be constructed. Many of the town's residents do not view this development with favour.
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