O L Leigh
Established Member
There are a couple of locations along the Chiltern route where the “6 foot” becomes the “several hundred yards”, and I’ve always wondered why this was.
The first is between Saunderton and Princes Risborough and contains fields and more than one residential property while the second slightly smaller one between Haddenham & Thame Parkway and Bicester North looks like uncultivated scrub.
I can’t imagine that they are there for cost saving purposes, as the need to survey and construct earthworks for two alignments must surely have been more expensive than just building one. So why are they there? Are they the sites of former junctions or does their history have some other explanation?
The first is between Saunderton and Princes Risborough and contains fields and more than one residential property while the second slightly smaller one between Haddenham & Thame Parkway and Bicester North looks like uncultivated scrub.
I can’t imagine that they are there for cost saving purposes, as the need to survey and construct earthworks for two alignments must surely have been more expensive than just building one. So why are they there? Are they the sites of former junctions or does their history have some other explanation?