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Picture source: Dave Chapman

The Railway Tavern was situated on Station Approach. This inn/hotel was popular with both railway workers and and station users. It was, unusually, made from wood and this construction choice sadly led to its closure and subsequent demolition

Source: David Chapman

One of the buildings on the station site that captured the imagination was the old hotel originally called "The Railway Tavern". This was a white wooden building and stood next to the track that came in from Aylesbury and opposite the Station Master's house. It was quite ironic that when the hotel finally shut down back in the 1960s, one of the reasons given was that the authorities were worried that sparks from the new diesel trains that were gradually replacing the steam engines would be a fire risk to the building. The fact that for many years the 'fire and brimstone' steam locomotives had gone in and out of the station without a problem didn't seem to matter. At one point in the 1870s, the landlord of the Railway Tavern was also the landlord of the George & Dragon in Princes Risborough High Street.

From Princes Risborough View, January 2012 edition

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