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History of the Railways of Oxfordshire Part 2 The South by Bill Simpson
History of the Railways of Oxfordshire Part 2 The South by Bill Simpson
Hard Cover with dust jacket
Copyright 2001
191 pages Indexed
CONTENTS
OXFORD
DIDCOT
THAME BRANCH
ABINGDON
WATLINGTON BRANCH
WALLINGFORD
HENLEY-ON-THAMES
FARINGDON
WANTAGE TRAMWAY
This second volume of the railways of Oxfordshire contains over two hundred photographs, maps, diagrams and timetables, together with an informative text of all the railways in the county south of the city of Oxford. This area more so than the north of the county is the area of the typical GWR branch lines. From days of the broad gauge to the diesel age there is A variety of motive power and designs of railway station buildings, from main line Didcot and Oxford to the terminus of the Wantage Tramway. A wealth of detail clearly shows just how much existed in the county to absorb the railway historian and enlighten those that are not able to recall any of it from memory.
Preface
If you were to take the possible journey by railway around the county of Oxfordshire some seventy years or so ago starting at Didcot, pausing at Radley to go up the Abingdon branch, then passing up the county through Oxford to Banbury. From there along the branch to Cheltenham as far as Kingham, through Chipping Norton, back to Oxford. Then south turning at Kennington onto the Thame line leaving the county at Princes Risborough. Then to retrace on a journey to Watlington where, regrettably for the hopes and failed aspirations of the Watlington and Wallingford Railway you would have to go by road to reach Wallingford station. From Wallingford back to the main line and take a trip up the branch to Henley. What would have been revealed to the privileged vista of the rail traveller would be the diversity of the landscape of the county, the rugged redlands to the north joining the county to Northamptonshire. Compared with the gentler slopes of the south leading to Berkshire, apart from the brighter stone slopes of Shotover. In other words the county would provide variety in landscape. This volume together with the earlier volume 1 of the North will, I hope, reveal the pleasure of that variety, so marked between college Oxford and William Morris car works at Oxford. How gratifying and enriching would such an easy paced journey be if it could be undertaken today. I hope these volumes will inspire the imagination to experience it in these pages.
Bill Simpson Bicester 2001
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