Transport
The village has a railway station on the Chiltern Line which opened on 2 April 1906. This provides services to London and Birmingham with a commuting time of about 25 minutes to London Marylebone. A tunnel being constructed to allow Tesco to build a supermarket collapsed on 30 June 2005 at 19:30. Nobody was injured but the line was closed for over six weeks, eventually reopening on 20 August 2005. Compensation by Tesco to Chiltern is believed to have cost at least £8.5m and the retailer pledged to fund a media campaign to win back passengers lost by the closure of its route. Construction of the tunnel began again in January 2009.
The 11.36am from London Paddington to Gerrards Cross, a parliamentary train, has been recognised as a 'zombie' service to prevent the railway line being closed. National rail is attempting to phase this service out.
The village is 14 miles (23 km) from London's Heathrow Airport.
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