Portal:Trains/Selected article/Week 45, 2009

The Wolverton to Newport Pagnell Line was a railway branch line in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom, running from Wolverton on the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) (today's West Coast Main Line) to Newport Pagnell. The line fully opened to passengers in 1867, with an extension to Olney planned in 1865, but this scheme was never built. Competition from road traffic starting in the early twentieth century put pressure on the railway, and it was later a victim of the Beeching axe in 1962. The line was seen as unprofitable, and it closed to passengers in 1964, and to goods traffic in 1967. Part of the trackbed today provides a section of the Milton Keynes redway system.