Culham Station (as Abingdon Road) c. 1840s Sketch. (DCL @ 56m 19ch) (Ref: 030112)

Opened by GWR in 1844 as Abingdon Road. Renamed to Culham in 1856. Early railways often used inns and hotels as booking offices, here it appears the GWR used a toll-house for this purpose. Note the horse drawn carriages being conveyed on flatbed wagons.

Culham (DCL @ 56m 19ch), looking towards Oxford.

The hangar and other military buildings in view are part of the old Naval Air Station, HMS Hornbill. These are now in use as small businesses on what is known as No 1 Site.

Near Kennington (DCL @ 61m 53ch) Inspecting the line with floods and melting snow. November 1894. (Ref: 031242)

Oxford (DCL @ 63m 41ch). 27 February 1954 (last day of service on the Woodstock branch) (Ref: 094113)

Autocoach in a pull push set, with engine sandwiched between two autocoaches, ready to leave Oxford for Blenheim and Woodstock at 2.48 pm. The Railway Magazine reported that the final train from Blenheim & Woodstock was in this formation with loco no 1420 in the middle

Oxford loco stabling and refueling point. Oxford 5 September 1983 (DCL @ 63m 41ch) (Ref 017191E)

BR diesel electric loco,, Class 50 50040 “Leviathan” Train heating coach ADM 395947, ex TO M8043M built 1926.Train heating coach blue colour 4-wheel oil tank 56170 Oxford 5 September 1983

Shipton-on-Cherwell. Bridge carrying Didcot - Birmingham line over the Oxford Canal. (DCL @ 70m 21ch). 1939 (Ref: 030604)

Branch to Blenheim & Woodstock in rear. Scene of the Shipton-on Cherwell derailment on Christmas Eve, 24 December 1874, when the tyre of a wheel on a third-class carriage of an Oxford to Birmingham Snow Hill broke. At least 26 died at the scene while four others were dead by the time the special train had arrived at Oxford station. At least one other died in hospital

Aynho Station GWR early 1900s (DCL @ 80m 25ch) (Ref: 030114)

Designed by Brunel the station was opened 1850. It has two matching buildings in local stone with all round awnings decorated with lion's heads. it was closed 1964

Aynho station (DCL @ 80m 25ch), looking North

Station opened 02 September 1850; closed 02 November 1964. The station building is now a private dwelling. Photo taken from the B4031 over bridge. The steel girder bridge in the background carries the Down line of the Bicester cutoff over this line and then to Aynho Junction where it joins the Banbury/Oxford line and on through Kings Sutton and in to Banbury.

Banbury (DCL @ 86m 16ch), looking south. LNER A3 4-6-2 No 60102 “Sir Frederick Banbury”

Banbury part way through its rebuilding circa 1951. The A3 will have come off the GCR from Woodford Halse and is probably waiting to return there with a local passenger train. The coach is a GWR auto-trailer and looks to have a 14xx 0-4-2T or maybe a pannier tank on the front - there was an auto train service linking Banbury to Princes Risborough via Bicester. There's a gas tank wagon in the background too

Widney Manor Station. Opening Day 1 July 1899 (DCL @ 120m 66ch) (Ref: 030539)

A crowd dressed in their finery on the platform to observe the train.

Acocks Green and South Yardley Station c.1906 (DCL @ 125m 08ch) (Ref: 030001)

View towards Birmingham with passengers alighting from train in platform 1. The station was opened in 1852 on the Paddington to Birmingham Snow Hill route, and was rebuilt to two island platforms around 1906. The photo shows this layout not long after completion

Tyseley Station c. 1910 (DCL @ 126m 5ch) (Ref: 030448)

Station opened by the GWR in 1906. Nameboard gives 'Tyseley Junction' indicating that the picture dates from after 1908 when the North Warwickshire line opened. Hand coloured print.

Tyseley Station c. 1910 (DCL @ 126m 5ch) (Ref: 030447)

The loco is Class 455 2-4-0T No. 1407 built 1878..

Tyseley Depot (alongside DCL @ approx 126½mp). Blue Pullman set W60097/647/737/47/6 seen at front of building. W60736/646/096 inside. 03 February 1963

Peplow (MKT @ 170m 16ch). 29 January 1961

Market Drayton station (MKT @ 177m 79ch). 01 May 1971

Opened 20 October 1863; closed 09 September 1963

Coole Pilate bridge over Shropshire Union Canal (MKT @ 185m 43ch). Canal bridge No 85A

The railway line closed completely on 01 May 1967, and the bridge was removed subsequent to the photo

Shipton-on-Cherwell (WOZ @ 2m 09ch). 27 February 1954 (last day of service) (Ref: 094114)

Auto coach train stationary on embankment (the same one as photographed at Oxford on the same day). A man standing by front buffer is having his photo taken

Blenheim & Woodstock (WOZ @ 3m 57ch). 27 February 1954 (last day of service) (Ref: 094111)

GWR 1400 class 0-4-2T no 1420, with autocoach, at the platform on the 3:42pm train for Kidlington. However, Roger Taylor comments "In Richard Lingard's 1973 OPC publication 'The Woodstock Branch', and referring to the departure of the last train from Blenheim, he says 'An extra auto coach was provided'. From the timetable Richard Maund quotes, my conjecture would be that the second auto was provided on the 1448 from Oxford and stayed with No 1420 and the other auto for the rest of the day. I would therefore suggest that the captions for the third and fourth pictures, at Blenheim, are incorrect and that they are not the 1542 train to Kidlington, as there is only one auto; it seems unlikely that the second auto had previously been stabled at Blenheim or Kidlington just to add to the final working. I suspect those two shots are earlier in the day."

Blenheim & Woodstock (WOZ @ 3m 57ch). 27 February 1954 (last day of service) (Ref: 094112)

GWR 1400 class 0-4-2T no 1420, at the platform on the 3:42pm train for Kidlington. Fireman shovelling ashes from smoke box, which has a sad face and “??? Day” chalked upon it