Closed Stations Journey quiz

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I do hope that this rule has not spoilt your enjoyment of traversing the "Varsity" line....

Winslow

 

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Verney Junction

Change here for Baker Street and Banbury

I was intending to follow the rule but had a lapse in concentration

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Claydon

 

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Marsh Gibbon and Poundon

 

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Launton

 

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Wendlebury Halt

 

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Charlton Halt

 

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Oddington Halt

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Oxford Road Halt

 

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Wolvercote Halt

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Port Meadow Halt

 

[dzug2]

In two minds about that one, and I certainly don't think Oxford Rewley Road would be valid, so just for fun shall we backtrack to the nearest closed station on the Cherwell Valley line - Wolvercot Platform - before continuing south.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I did check the line situation with an engineering drawing and it does seem to show that after Port Meadow Halt, there was a connection with the lines running into the different station in Oxford than the terminal one that you refer to at Rewley Road.

Obviously the current Oxford station has to be disregarded and we now enter upon the line of the Cherwell Valley line where my records shows the first closed station on that line to be......

Hinksey Halt

 

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Abingdon Road Halt

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Abingdon Junction

 

[dzug2]

I think the next closed station is Upton And Blewbury on the DNS

However an aside - there is a connection between Potton (that we passed through earlier today) and Wantage Road (a closed station on the mainline west of Didcot) - and the Didcot Railway Centre. Any guesses?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Churn

I will have to give some thought to your conundrum, but I wonder if the stock of the Wantage Tramway have anything to do with your query ?

 

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Compton

You are on the right lines - I'll fill in the details if you don't come up with them

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hampstead Norris

Wantage Tramway locomotive number 5, originally "Jane" then known as "Shannon" is at the Didcot Railway Centre

 

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Pinewood Halt

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hermitage

Did my second posting under my "Hampstead Norris" posting come any nearer to solving your conundrum?

 

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Yes - it originally ran on the Sandy and Potton Railway before that was absorbed into the later Bedford - Cambridge line. I believe it was plinthed at Wantage Road station until that closed and then transferred to the railway Centre

Woodhay

 

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Highclere

 

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Burghclere

 

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Litchfield

 

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Whitchurch Town

 

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Sutton Scotney

 

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Worthy Down Platform

 

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King's Worthy

 

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Winchester Chesil

and no more closed stations on this trip

and thanks to Paul for an interesting trip