page_title: Towersey
section_title: Railway
hierarchical_section_title: Towersey / Railway
caption_attribution_description: English: Phoenix Trail sign on former Thame to Princes Risborough railway
context_page_description: Towersey is a village and civil parish about 1 ¹⁄₂ miles east of Thame in Oxfordshire. Towersey was part of Buckinghamshire until 1933, when the county boundary was moved and Towersey was exchanged for Kingsey. The 2011 Census recorded Towersey parish's population as 433.
context_section_description: In 1859 the Wycombe Railway began to be extended through Towersey parish from High Wycombe to Thame. crossing Chinnor Road on a bridge just south of the village. The line opened in 1862. In 1864 the line was extended again from Thame to Oxford. Thame was the nearest station until 1933, when the Great Western Railway opened Towersey Halt on the west side of the bridge. British Railways withdrew passenger services in January 1963 and freight services to Thame in 1991. The track has since been lifted.
  The former railway bridge with its steel span over Chinnor Road survives. The trackbed has been converted into the Phoenix Trail for cycling, horseriding and walking between Prince's Risborough and Thame.
caption: Phoenix Trail signpost in Towersey
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