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I would have thought the obvious answer was to put a new bit of road here, and do away with the Launton bridge altogether

I think the next bridge we can see is the new Road bridge for Addison road. So tracks are very close to it. Drone footage would be excellent though.

Photo of the new Claydon sidings taken from the bridge on Queen Catherine Road looking towards Oxford

Good Video, thanks for posting. The station looks great, and a good size too. Presumably that’s the maximum speed a train can travel on an incomplete line? Or it’s very close to where it needs it to stop?

Thanks for the clarification. Do you happen to know if the (now closed) pub at Verney Junction had a connection to the Station? For example, built by the railway company?

Yes, I believe it is. I think the garage used by the house may have also been integral to the station, possibly a booking room?

Here are the latest track laying progress from today This was taken from Charndon bridge, looking towards Bicester and shows how far the track has reached eastwards. 1682363970 This photo was taken from the new Verney Junction farm track bridge looking west towards Bicester and shows how far...

If you have access to Apple Maps, the satellite photo has recently been updated. The HS2 route is now much clearer, particularly around Calvert where it crosses the East-West railway.

Both stations in Bicester have had expanded services thanks to Chilton Railways. Bicester Village is also about to have its Bletchley service reinstated.

Thanks for both replies. Yes, that looks like it’s Aves Ditch.

Google earth shows what looks like a dismantled railway line between the old air base at Upper Heyford stretching to the outskirts of the village of Kirtlington, which is only a couple of fields away from the Cherwell Valley line. I can’t find any record of this on the internet. Can anyone...

Marsh Gibbon Station taken this afternoon from the new footpath bridge. From this distance it looks like some of the original platform still remains Photo below shows the other direction towards Bicester, with the track stopping about ¼ mile short of the former station 1669565429

Looking good. Thanks for the post

Great photos. Thanks for the update Are all the foot bridges now open?

That’s brilliant. Thanks for the link, I look forward to reading that later. I’ll have to plan one of my walks in the area and see what I can find.

I’ve recently discovered there was a landslide on the Banbury to Cheltenham line between Hook Norton and Rollright Halt in 1951. According to a number of sites, the landslide was never cleared, and instead, the section of the line between King’s Sutton and Rollright Halt was closed. Since...

15 places behind Winslow in the Alphabet haha. I would imagine the autocorrect department at the Silicon Valley tech giant haven’t spent too much time in the small but picturesque Buckinghamshire town.

1660470437 1660470568 Photo of New track coming out of Bicester, under Charbridge Lane Bridge and off to Launton. Not sure how far it extends. Will have a look next time I’m passing.

If those are the houses on the south side of the bridge then the station master’s house is on the other side of the road. It’s a detached building with a conservatory on the side.

Bicester London Road station reopened as Bicester Town station in 1987, 20 years after the line was closed to passenger traffic. The main station building survived intact during the closure, but for some reason it was decided the 140 year old building would be demolished a year or so after the...