Faringdon Railway

The Faringdon Railway was a British railway company based in Oxfordshire , England .

The company received the concession to build a 5.6-kilometer-long 2140 mm on August 13, 1860 broad gauge - railway from Faringdon to Uffington Road on the railway line of the Great Western Railway between London and Bristol. The financing came from local entrepreneurs. The line was opened on June 1, 1864. The operation has been carried out by GWR since the beginning. On August 10, 1878, the gauge was changed to standard gauge . The Great Western Railway finally took over the Faringdon Railway on June 25, 1886.

Passenger traffic on the route ceased in 1951 and freight traffic in 1964.

literature

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

Web links

• Faringdon Railway at faringdon.org
• Reg Wilkinson: Vale and Downland Museum - Local History Series: The Faringdon Branch (pdf)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Faringdon Advanced Broadgauge Railway ( Memento of 10 January 2007 at the Internet Archive )