Princes Risborough station looks very run down in this photograph

but is dripping with GWR character! The bay platform in the foreground now serves the shuttle service that operated between here and Aylesbury but judging by the rusty railhead I am not sure that this was the case back in 1980. The down bracket signal stands to the right controlled by the nearby signal box that still stands today now being in the care of the Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway. BR had rationalised and altered the track layout over the previous few years at the same time taking the former down platform out of use, notice it is taken over by greenery in the background. The track layout was a chaotic and inefficient one being part of BR's stealth plan to close the whole line that luckily did not come to pass.