 On 26 August 1871 an excursion ran from Wood Siding to London hauled by the Great Western Railway (GWR).It carried around 150 people, for a total of passenger fares (with each child counted as half an adult), and was drawn by horses between Wood Siding and Quainton Road and by locomotive from Quainton Road to Aylesbury where the carriages were attached to the 7.30 am GWR service via Princes Risborough to London, arriving at 10.00 am.The experiment was not a success.