Marston Gate Station after the passenger service finished.

This is a well produced book describing the first purpose built branch line, opening in 1839 to connect with the London to Birmingham railway, which opened in 1837. The line cut through part of the rural part of Tring parish, to the north of Long Marston. A station was opened at Marston Gate in about 1863 and the line finally closed a hundred years later.

The book is of particular interest to me because my great great grandfather, John Gibbs of Aylesbury, was one of the original investors who financed the building of the line.

There is a web page for Long Marston