Editing Gerrards Cross (section)

==Transport==
[[File:Gerrards Cross station geograph-3560419-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Gerrards Cross station, in 1994. The view NW from the footbridge, towards Princes Risborough]] 
The town has a [[Gerrards Cross railway station|railway station]] on the [[Chiltern Main Line]] which opened on 2 April 1906. This provides services to London, High Wycombe and Oxford with a commuting time of 18 minutes on the fast train to [[Marylebone station|London Marylebone]]. A new arch over the section of deep railway [[Cut (earthmoving)|cutting]] to allow [[Tesco]] to build a supermarket [[Gerrards Cross tunnel collapse|collapsed]] on 30 June 2005 at 19:30. Nobody was injured but the line was closed for over six weeks. Compensation by Tesco to Chiltern was reported as £8.5m and the retailer compensated by funding a media campaign to reinstate business immediately lost by the closure. Construction of a correctly constructed arch began in January 2009.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nce.co.uk/tesco-restarts-work-at-tunnel-collapse-site/1967072.article|title=Tesco restarts work at tunnel collapse site|date=14 January 2009 |access-date=2009-05-06|work=New Civil Engineer}}</ref>

The 11.36am from London Paddington to Gerrards Cross was an official or '[[parliamentary train]]' recognised as an outlandish loss-making service to prevent the link to that terminus being closed or re-allocated. This train now terminates at West Ruislip. In 2011, National Rail was lobbied to phase the service out.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-hunt-for-britains-ghost-trains-6279103.html|title=The hunt for Britain's Ghost Trains|date=19 December 2011 |access-date=2011-12-19|work=The Independent}}</ref>

The town lies {{convert|8.4|miles}} north west of London's [[Heathrow Airport]].