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Branch Lines Of Somerset by Colin Maggs w/ dust jacket
Branch Lines Of Berkshire
Colin G. Maggs
Hard cover with Dust Jacket
145 pages
Copyright 1993
Contents
Introduction1
Slough to Windsor2
Maidenhead to Cookham17
Twyford to Wargrave26
Reading to Mortimer33
Southcote Junction to Reading Central43
Cholsey and Moulsford to Wallingford47
Didcot to Newbury56
Radley to Abingdon69
Wantage Road to Wantage82
Uffington to Faringdon96
Newbury to Lambourn103
Reading to Sandhurst118
Reading to Ascot136
Introduction
Most of the branch lines of Berkshire were associated with the Great Western Railway. Receiving its Act in 1835, granting powers to build a line from London to Bristol, the GWR opened to Maidenhead on 4 June 1838, Twyford (1 July 1839), Reading (30 March 1840), Steventon (1 June 1840), Faringdon Road (later named Challow) on 20 July 1840 and throughout to Bristol on 30 June 1841.
From Reading a principal branch, the Berks and Hants Railway, ran to Southcote Junction south-west of Reading, where the line split: one fork running to Basingstoke and the other to Newbury and Hungerford. The latter was eventually improved and upgraded, and in 1906 became part of a new direct line to the West of England.
Another principal branch was the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway which ran north to south through the county and, as well as serving the local community, carried trains from the Midlands to the south coast.
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