Great shots of the old Oxford Station (what a hole it was - just like the current one!). Amazing how a town like Oxford never seems to have a fitting station.
There were indeed a lot of Southern locomotives on the Cross Country trains then.
Pleased it gave you some pleasure. Have just been back to Oxford for the first time since filming and I see what you mean. Even the remains of the old LNWR station were still there back then.
I seem to remember being pulled by a pannier tank from Banbury to Reading (or possibly Oxford) when I was about eight years old. Is this a false memory? Or was there such a service?
That would be on the GWR London - Birmingham main line and a pannier tank would be a distinct possibility - ifit was a through train to the south through Oxford it would have handed over to a Southern loco at Oxford. That is from personal memory, I have not a definitive answer.
@kezbell Thanks for that. At the end of the journey it pulled into a bay platform I think and we crossed the platform for an onward train to Hampshire, 'cross country' fashion as my father used to say. As we waited a 38XX ran through with a pleasing coating of grey weathering. When we left we passed a long tanker train with a 9F running dead slow, I guess running slowly up to a red. Just glad to have been old enough to remember steam!
yes there was a lot of water in side tunnel i worked at severn tunnel depot from 1961 to 64 as a fireman on the bank engines through the hole as we called it great days.
So pleased it stirs up memories, mostly happy I hope. I used to work with an ex goods guard on the South Wales lines. Was there really that mmuch water in the Severn Tunnel?
7929 Wyke Hall at Snow Hill - A Tyseley Engine - Great!!
amandajh 1 month ago
Brilliant stuff!
RoseCottageHalt 1 year ago
Great shots of the old Oxford Station (what a hole it was - just like the current one!). Amazing how a town like Oxford never seems to have a fitting station.
There were indeed a lot of Southern locomotives on the Cross Country trains then.
JimTLonW6 1 year ago
Pleased it gave you some pleasure. Have just been back to Oxford for the first time since filming and I see what you mean. Even the remains of the old LNWR station were still there back then.
kezbell 1 year ago
I seem to remember being pulled by a pannier tank from Banbury to Reading (or possibly Oxford) when I was about eight years old. Is this a false memory? Or was there such a service?
SteffanLlwyd 1 year ago
That would be on the GWR London - Birmingham main line and a pannier tank would be a distinct possibility - ifit was a through train to the south through Oxford it would have handed over to a Southern loco at Oxford. That is from personal memory, I have not a definitive answer.
kezbell 1 year ago
@kezbell Thanks for that. At the end of the journey it pulled into a bay platform I think and we crossed the platform for an onward train to Hampshire, 'cross country' fashion as my father used to say. As we waited a 38XX ran through with a pleasing coating of grey weathering. When we left we passed a long tanker train with a 9F running dead slow, I guess running slowly up to a red. Just glad to have been old enough to remember steam!
SteffanLlwyd 1 year ago
1:00 o.o bloody ell can that 14XX go any faster?
trainlover657 1 year ago
yes there was a lot of water in side tunnel i worked at severn tunnel depot from 1961 to 64 as a fireman on the bank engines through the hole as we called it great days.
toptennor 3 years ago
god it brings back memorts of my time as a fireman on british rail in the sixtys in south wales..thanks
toptennor 3 years ago
So pleased it stirs up memories, mostly happy I hope. I used to work with an ex goods guard on the South Wales lines. Was there really that mmuch water in the Severn Tunnel?
kezbell 3 years ago