Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway

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Banbury-Cheltenham Direct Railway
Legend to Birmingham Banbury Kings Sutton to Oxford Adderbury Milton Halt Bloxham Hook Norton Rollright Halt Chipping Norton Sarsden Halt Kingham Cotswold Line Stow-on-the-Wold Bourton-on-the-Water Notgrove M&SWJR line to Cirencester Andoversford Junction Charlton Kings Cheltenham South and Leckhampton Cheltenham Lansdown station GWR Gloucester to Birmingham Line

The Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway opened in full in 1881^[1], being an amalgamation of Chipping Norton Railway and Bourton-on-the-Water Railway. The line from Kingham to Bourton-on-the-Water had opened in 1862.^[2]

The whole line was formally absorbed by the Great Western Railway in 1897^[3], although it had been run by the GWR since it opened. Passenger services ceased on October 15, 1962^[4] with goods following on September 7, 1964.^[5]

[edit] Notes

1. ^ dukedog-GWR family tree
2. ^ Mike Oakley. Gloucestershire Railway Stations, 2003, Dovecote Press, Wimborne, p9. 
3. ^ Railway Companies and Contractors
4. ^ The Kingham Line
5. ^ Mike Oakley. Gloucestershire Railway Stations, 2003, Dovecote Press, Wimborne, p9. 

[edit] External links

• Photographs of the railway remains in 2006
• Historic photographs of the line