The Great Western & Great Central Joint Committee was created on 1 August 1899 with the dual objective of providing the
Great Central Railway with a second route into London, bypassing the
Metropolitan Railway; and of providing the
Great Western Railway with a shorter route to the Midlands. The line ran from Northolt Junction to Ashendon Junction; the central section of its route was an existing GWR line. North of a new line was constructed, which opened for goods on 20 November 1905, and for passengers on 2 April 1906. The only station originally provided on that new line was
Haddenham, which was built on the western side of Haddenham village, on the north side of the present-day Station Road. The station was closed on 7 January 1963. Twenty-four years later, a new station was opened about to the north-west, named . ==Route==