In this view at High Wycombe station, it wreaks of

the GWR both in terms of the station canopy design, the array of lower quadrant signals and the large Type 11 signal box dating from 1905. However, six years before this photograph was taken BR transferred the Marylebone to Birmingham route through the Chilterns from the Western Region to the Midland. The station had offset platforms due to the railways rather confined route through the town hugging to the side of a hill. In this view, the through fast lines are still in place but they were removed in the next two years as part of BR's covert plans to deliberately run down the line in an attempt to make a case for its closure including Marylebone.