Trains... Choo Choo, not the dirty kind.

[Gravdigr]

If ya buy this place, do ya gotta deal with the ten trains a day stopping there?

Pass.

[Carruthers]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

If ya buy this place, do ya gotta deal with the ten trains a day stopping there?

Pass.

No, it's a private dwelling fenced off from the working part of the station itself.
Reading between the lines, in a manner of speaking, the holiday rental side of it probably appeals to steam railway enthusiasts so it will never be a railway free zone.

Here's someone else who is reading between the lines.

[Carruthers]

On the subject of railway station buildings converted to houses, see Posts 127 to 136 of this thread. (Little Kimble)

Little Kimble station is just three miles from here.
For many years the station itself was closed although the station buildings became a private dwelling and trains continued to run between Princes Risborough and Aylesbury.
I can’t remember how long ago it was when the station came back into use but I wonder how it affected the occupants of the house.
Having said that, while there are comparatively few passenger services, the track is used extensively by trains taking London’s domestic waste to a landfill site at the old brickworks quarry at Calvert north of Aylesbury.
On a warm day those wagons do NOT smell of roses so a few passengers wandering past your window are probably a minor inconvenience.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Slip Coach from 1858 to 1960...

[Carruthers]

Thanks, Bruce. I'd never heard of that operation before.
It doesn't look a particularly safe procedure on the face of it!

I noted the reference to a 'Warship Class' diesel as the train left Paddington.
Some years ago, a mate of mine noticed a particularly grubby diesel loco at Euston with the name 'Scharnhorst' tastefully inscribed in the grime.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I imagine when they started in 1858 without wireless communications and with more primitive equipment, everyone had to be on their toes. Of course back then the riders probably accepted more jostling than they would today.

[Carruthers]

I've just mentioned this video to Dad.
He remembers the use of slip coaches at Princes Risborough which is on the line shown and about twenty miles SE of Bicester.

Preparing lunch, hence brevity.