Thankfully, the memory of the Great Western is being kept alive by numerous heritage railways. The largest of these have been well publicised over the years, so for this special issue we thought we would take a detailed look at one of the more unsung groups helping to keep trains running on ex-GWR metals - the Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway. The Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway is an eye-opener in so many ways: Although a relatively small heritage railway compared with some, it sells three times more tickets a year than the original Great Western Railway sold annually at Chinnor between 1900 and 1939! It has owned the Chinnor branch longer than the original builders, the Watlington & Princes Risborough Railway, who operated it for just 11 years between 1872 and 1883.
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