Gerrards Cross railway station serves the village of Gerrards Cross in Buckinghamshire. On Chiltern Line between Denham Golf Club and Seer Green and Jordans, it is sited in a cutting, and gives fast rail access to London Marylebone and to High Wycombe and Birmingham Snow Hill. Although its name has long been merely "Gerrards Cross", its original name was "Gerrards Cross for the Chalfonts". Map sources for Gerrards Cross at grid reference SU999880 Gerrards Cross is a picturesque village in Buckinghamshire, England. ... Map of Bucks (1904) Buckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks) is a county in South East England. ... The Chiltern Main Line is the railway line from London Marylebone to Birmingham Snow Hill. ... Denham Golf Club station is on the Chiltern Line out of Marylebone towards High Wycombe. ... Seer Green is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. ... The main entrance to Marylebone station. ... High Wycombe in the UK High Wycombe, (previously Chepping Wycombe or Chipping Wycombe) South Buckinghamshire, is 29 miles (46. ... The station entrance Birmingham Snow Hill station is a railway station located in the centre of Birmingham, England. ...

The station was built as part of the construction of the GWR/GCR joint line in the years before World War I. 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 from Marylebone which terminate at Gerrards Cross use the siding there. Combatants Allies: Serbia, Russia, France, Romania, Belgium, British Empire, United States, Italy, and others Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire Casualties Military dead: 5 million Civilian deaths: 3 million Total of dead: 8 million Military dead: 4 million Civilian deaths: 3 million Total dead: 7 million The First...

The new line and station virtually created the present Gerrards Cross; the original settlement lay for the most part along the Oxford Road. Oxford is a city and local government district in Oxfordshire, England, with a population of 134,248 (2001 census). ...

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. Tesco PLC (LSE: TSCO) is a United Kingdom-based international supermarket chain. ... A disused railway tunnel now converted to pedestrian and bicycle use, near Houyet, Belgium A tunnel is an underground passage. ...

Service Interruption

At 19:35 on 30 June 2005 20 m of the tunnel roof near its eastern end collapsed, depositing failed tunnel segment fragments and many tonnes of infill material on the track. News pictures show that the concrete segments adjoining the hole which are still in place appear to have an unhealthy downwards bow at the point where two segments meet. June 30 is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 184 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

A Marylebone-bound train was standing at the eastbound platform at the moment of collapse; its driver saw the collapse and raised the alarm, thereby having all traffic stopped. No-one was injured. A westbound train which had left Denham had to make an emergency stop between stations, and reversed back to Denham Golf Club to allow its passengers to alight. Again, no-one was injured.

Service Restoration

Following work on removing infill material and various concrete segments, both those which actually failed and those which were judged to be unsafe but which did not actually collapse, the trackwork and signalling system have been restored. Train services resumed from start of normal timetable on Saturday 20th August 2005.

Gerrards Cross celebrates it's centenary year in 2006.

External links

• BBC News Online - Tunnel collapses onto rail line
• Information and news on the Gerrards Cross Tunnel