TRAINS AND BOATS AND.....PUBS

 Today, it's our first part of an extended visit to Aylesbury, where we start at the main railway station, once owned jointly by the Metropolitan and Great Central Railways. Here, a GCR 2-4-0T, No. 24, is in the station.

Into LNER days and 6164 Earl Beatty is leaving Aylesbury for Marylebone.

Metropolitan Railway 0-6-4T No. 34 'Lord Aberconway' at Aylesbury.

Up until the 1980s, this fine ex GCR signal box controlled the comings and goings.

DMUs at Aylesbury in Network South East times.

Chiltern Railways in the operator today.

Just to the north of the station is Chiltern Railways' depot. All sorts of interesting stuff there.

We now leave Aylesbury station behind......

.....and head for the town's other station, Aylesbury High Street, built by the LNWR. It has long been closed, but 48365 was photographed shunting there in 1960. (Photo by Roger Jones, of Flickr, with Creative Commons License)

A different form of transport now. The Aylesbury Arm of the Grand Union Canal terminates at a basin just south of the town centre.

Naturally, there's a pub close by, The Ship.

Into the town centre and a look at the County Hall, in the Market Square.

Here is the Market Square itself, late 1930s, I reckon.

Overlooking the Market Square is the Bell, now a Wetherspoons.

However, down in a courtyard off the square is the Kings Head, a restored 15th Century coaching inn owned by the National Trust and operated by Chiltern Brewery.

That seems to be a good place to conclude. In the next post, we'll look at the public transport in Aylesbury and, of course, the other pubs.