Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway

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The Banbury at Cheltenham Direct Railway was a British railway company based in Gloucestershire , England. Your route network had a length of 53 kilometers.

The Great Western Railway subsidiaries Bourton-on-the-Water Railway and Chipping Northern Railway founded Banbury and Cheltenham Direct on July 21, 1873. On June 1, 1881, this opened the Cheltenham – Bourton railway and on April 6, 1887, the Chipping Northern – Kings Sutton railway . This created a continuous connection from Cheltenham to the Oxford – Worcester GWR route in Kings Sutton .

Operation was carried out by GWR, which the railway company also took over on July 1, 1897.

literature

  • Christopher Awdry: Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies . Stephens, Wellingborough 1990, ISBN 1-85260-049-7 .

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