High Wycombe Train Station

In October 2025, we were surprised and delighted to pick up the Overall Project of the year award at the Chiltern Railways annual Community Awards event in Birmingham. Together with our station adoptee partners BNU, we have been working on this for two years and look forward to many more.

BNU have fully opened the Brunel Shed in association with the BNU Student Union:
https://www.bucksstudentsunion.org/eat-drink-shop/brunelengineshed/ It is home to a costa coffee concession and a great venue for the town.

This is a big community partnership effort – we achieve nothing in isolation so our thanks to: Bucks College Group, Buckinghamshire Council, Chilterns National Landscape, HWBIDCo Ltd, as well as local businesses, organisations and of course the many hundreds volunteers who’ve given up their time and help do the hard work!

A special mention and thanks to the following people for all their effort and input too: Matt Rogers, Charmain Clayton, Louise Harvey, Harry Burr, Sue Hynard, Fay Ewing, Zoe Sharpe, Dan Wilson and Cllr Lesley Clarke OBE.

What’s this?!

At the end of our Train Station project in September 2025, we were delighted to spot a hummingbird hawk-moth feasting on the long lasting verbena! These moths visit the UK in the summer and feast on nectar from flowers with their long and tubular proboscis. With 80 beats per second of its busy wings, you can see why it’s named after the hummingbird. Click on the image to see it in action.

We very much hope that the work we have done on site over the past 18 months, increasing biodiversity through planting wildflowers and more, is what led this little moth here and that High Wycombe Train Station will continue to be a welcoming site for wildlife and people alike.

2024 & 25 Overview

We are now at the conclusion of our transformation project at High Wycombe train station with fabulous partners Buckinghamshire New University and Chiltern Railways. We have transformed the station into a more welcoming, attractive and meaningful landmark for visitors. And as you can see here, the Common Blue butterfly has been enjoying the wildflowers.

We have made biodiversity enhancements, created new artwork depicting nature & heritage and improved signage and information for visitors.

Thank you to our community partner organisations – Wycombe Museum, Wycombe Wanderers Foundation & Wycombe Arts Centre.

And also to you – our local community including volunteers, partner organisations, community groups and local businesses.

Don’t worry about the project ending, we very much hope to be back in Spring 2026!

To find out about volunteering with Chiltern Rangers, have a look at our website.

Or for more information you can call us on 01494 474486 or email info@chilternrangers.co.uk.

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A final bit of art & wildlife

Welcoming banners

Part of the project was to install welcoming banners for visitors arriving at High Wycombe. These were designed by art & design students at Bucks College Group . Click on the image to the left to view all 4.

A beautiful Common Blue spotted in June 2025 enjoying our Bird’s-foot Trefoil

April 2025 – A bridge too far (artwork by Buckinghamshire New University students)

A lunchtime session for OG Group – thank you!

A late lunchtime session on 27 November 2024 – we were delighted to be joined by staff from OD group – who are busy putting the infrastructure into the Brunel Shed ready for its opening!

We weeded (again) planted up the last few Scabious and woodchipped the main beds. We got the edges done on the main mini meadow and then got to cut back and raked off despite there being so much litter.

Looking forward to spring and seeing it all come alive again!