Stoke Mandeville
General information
Location	Stoke Mandeville, Buckinghamshire, England
Coordinates	51°47′17″N0°47′02″W / 51.788°N 0.784°W / 51.788; -0.784
Grid reference	SP839106
Managed by	Chiltern Railways
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	SKM
Classification	DfT category E
History
Original company	Metropolitan Railway
Pre-grouping	Metropolitan and Great Central Joint Railway
Post-grouping	Metropolitan and Great Central Joint Railway
Key dates
1 September 1892 (1892-09-01)	Station opened
Passengers
2020/21	58,682

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The station was opened on 1 September 1892, by the Metropolitan Railway (Met), when its main line was extended from Chalfont Road to Aylesbury Town. The Great Central Railway served the station from 1899, connecting the station to Leicester Central, Nottingham Victoria and Sheffield Victoria.

When London Underground's Metropolitan line (the successor to the Met) was fully electrified in the late 1950s and early 1960s, a decision was made to run only as far as Amersham. This meant that Stoke Mandeville was henceforth now only served by main line services; following the end of steam-hauled Metropolitan line trains in 1961, the service was provided by Class 115 diesel multiple units until 1992. Responsibility for the station, and the railway north of Amersham to Aylesbury, was transferred from London Transport to British Railways on 11 September 1961; ^[1] British Railways signage gradually replaced that of the London Underground.

In 1966, following publication of the Reshaping of British Railways report, the line north of Aylesbury was closed and the station was only served by local routes. Services were run by British Rail until privatisation in 1996, when Chiltern Railways took on the franchise.

During the modernisation of the Met in the 1950s, the down (Aylesbury-bound) platform buildings were demolished. In 1989-90, Network SouthEast refurbished the station and the up platform canopy was shortened slightly.

The lawn at the station front features several sculptures, including a statue of a former employee.

Facilities

The station has a ticket office, which is staffed each morning and also weekday evenings. There is a car park with 267 spaces, along with bicycle storage. Both station platforms have step-free access. ^[2]

Services

Chiltern Railways operates the folliwing off-peak service, in trains per hour (tph): ^[3]

• 2 tph to London Marylebone, via Amersham
• 2 tph to Aylesbury; of which:
  • 1 tph continues to Aylesbury Vale Parkway.

Journeys to Marylebone take about 55 minutes and to Aylesbury in five minutes. ^[3]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Aylesbury		Chiltern Railways London to Aylesbury Line		Wendover
Disused railways
Preceding station	London Underground			Following station
Aylesbury Terminus		Metropolitan line		Wendover towards Baker Street or Aldgate

Onward connections

Redline operates bus route 300, which connects Aylesbury, Princes Risborough and High Wycombe; it calls at the station and at Stoke Mandeville Hospital. ^[4] Further services to other locations, including Chesham, Tring and Wendover, are available nearby in the village. ^[5]

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Stoke Mandeville railway station .

• Train times and station information for Stoke Mandeville railway station from National Rail

• Chiltern Railways
• Photos of Stoke Mandeville station Archived 22 April 2025 at the Wayback Machine