Wood Siding Railway Station - Closure

Closure

Upon the withdrawal of London Transport services the lease expired and the railway and stations reverted to the control of the Oxford & Aylesbury Tramroad Company. With no funds and no rolling stock of its own the O&ATC was unable to operate the line. On 2 April 1936 the entire infrastructure of the line was sold piecemeal at auction; excluding track, the buildings and structures at Wood Siding fetched a total of £9 2s 6d (about £460 as of 2013). Aside from the station houses at Westcott and Brill, which were sold separately, the auction raised £112 10s (about £5,670 as of 2013) in total. While Wood Siding station was demolished shortly after closure, the abutments of the bridge which carried the station and sidings remain intact.

With the stations at Wood Siding and Brill closed, and the Great Western Railway's Brill and Ludgershall railway station inconveniently sited, the GWR opened a new station on the Chiltern Main Line nearby at Dorton Halt on 21 June 1937. Both Dorton Halt and Brill and Ludgersall stations were closed under the Beeching Axe on 7 January 1963, although the line remains in use by trains between Princes Risborough and Bicester North. There are no longer any open railway stations in the vicinity of Brill and Wood Siding.