Eynsham Railway Station

	Eynsham Railway Station Eynsham railway station served the Oxfordshire town of Eynsham and the Eynsham Sugar Beet Factory on the Oxford, Witney and Fairford Railway between and . History The Witney Railway, including Eynsham station, opened on 14 November 1861. It was originally a single platform station, but was the Witney Railway's principal intermediate station. The contractor who built the line, Malachi Bartlett, erected single-storey wooden station building in the same style as that at the line's other stations at and . It was weather-boarded and had a Welsh slate hip roof with a shallow pitch and broad eaves. In 1892 the Great Western Railway added a signal box next to the station building, very similar to that at . A large Cotswold stone goods shed stood at the Fairford end of the platform, a few yards from the signal box. The station had a goods yard that handled significant goods traffic. It had two sidings (later three) and a 1-ton crane. The largest traffic was coal, for which the thir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Eynsham Eynsham is an English village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in Oxfordshire, about north-west of Oxford and east of Witney. The United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 Census recorded a parish population of 4,648. It was estimated at 5,087 in 2020. History Eynsham grew up near the historically important ford of Swinford, Oxfordshire, Swinford on the River Thames flood plain. Excavations have shown that the site was used in the Bronze Age Britain, Bronze Age (3000–300 BCE) for a rectilinear enclosure edging a gravel terrace. The ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' records Eynsham as ''Egonesham'' and describes it as one of four towns that Battle of Mons Badonicus#Effects of the battle, the Saxons captured from the Britons in 571 CE. Evidence has been found of 6th–7th-century Saxon buildings at New Wintles Farm, about three-quarters of a mile (1 km) from the present parish church. There is evidence that Eynsham had an early Minster (church), minster, probably founded in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Passing Loop A passing loop (UK usage) or passing siding (North America) (also called a crossing loop, crossing place, refuge loop or, colloquially, a hole) is a place on a single line railway or tramway, often located at or near a station, where trains or trams travelling in opposite directions can pass each other. Trains/trams going in the same direction can also overtake, provided that the signalling arrangement allows it. A passing loop is double-ended and connected to the main track at both ends, though a dead end siding known as a refuge siding, which is much less convenient, can be used. A similar arrangement is used on the gauntlet track of cable railways and funiculars, and in passing places on single-track roads. Ideally, the loop should be longer than all trains needing to cross at that point. Unless the loop is of sufficient length to be dynamic, the first train to arrive must stop or move very slowly, while the second to arrive may pass at speed. If one train is too long for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Great Western Society Didcot Railway Centre is a railway museum and preservation engineering site in Didcot, Oxfordshire, England. The site was formerly a Great Western Railway engine shed and locomotive stabling point. Background The founders and commercial backers of the Great Western Railway (GWR) supported Isambard Kingdom Brunel's scheme to develop an integrated railway and steamship service which allowed trans- Atlantic passengers and freight quicker passage between London and New York City. However, whilst backing the scheme the railway had to make a profit, and so it took a number of detours and added both mainline and branch line traffic to increase its domestic earnings. This earned the railway the nickname ''The Great Way Round'' from its detractors. Whilst the route from London Paddington to Reading was relatively straight, the then obvious most direct route to Bristol would have taken the railway further south, thus avoiding both Didcot and Swindon. However, passenger and freight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]