Four years of hard work has resulted in the clock being put back 130 years in Chinnor.

An exact replica of the village's station as it was in 1872 has been built by members of Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway Association.

It is planning an opening ceremony in April that will be carried out by the group's president, Sir William McAlpine, who used to own the Flying Scotsman. He and other guests will then have a buffet meal on a steam-drawn train as it goes through the foothills of the Chilterns to Princes Risborough and back.

Eric Samuel, of the railway group, said: "Everyone is immensely proud of the achievement.

"We know we've got it right because of old photographs and the fact that the Watlington railway station buildings still exist at Pyrton Field Farm. So we had a good prototype to work to."

The present station has a waiting room, station office and ticket office, with the parcel office made into a shop.

The line from Watlington was closed in the 1960s and eventually severed by the M40.

But the Chinnor to Princes Risborough line was kept open for freight trains to and from Chinnor Cement Works.

When the trains ceased in the 1980s, the railway association bought the land and renovated the line.

Its eventual aim is to have its trains running into Risborough station to form a commuter link. At the moment the line stops just short of the station.