• The Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway (B&CDR) was a railway company through the Cotswolds in England that built a line between points near Banbury and...
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    Banbury's town centre. The former Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway, part of the Great Western Railway, was completed in 1881. Adderbury railway station...
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    much later by the Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway, which opened on 6 April 1887. The Northampton and Banbury Junction Railway did not generate much...
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    II, pp. 365, 605 Hemmings, Chapter Five The Era of the Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway, p. 99 MacDermot, Vol. II, p. 338 MacDermot, Vol. II, Chapter...
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    Bourton-on-the-Water to Cheltenham section of the Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway. This was run by the Great Western Railway which thereafter took...
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    Newport) used the Great Central Railway branch line The Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway passed through Banbury, as well as Newcastle — Bournemouth...
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    town was served by Stow-on-the-Wold railway station on the Great Western Railway's Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway. The nearest station is now at Moreton-in-Marsh...
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    Bourton-on-the-Water (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from A Dictionary of Music and Musicians)
    the GWR's Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway. The station closed to passengers in 1962 and to goods in 1964. The closest operating railway station now...
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    Swindon and Cheltenham Extension Railway Act 1884 gave running powers from Andoversford to Cheltenham over the GWR (Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway),...
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    Great Western Railway promoting its Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway. The part of this line from Bourton-on-the-Water to Cheltenham opened on 1 June...
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    Bloxham railway station served the village of Bloxham in northern Oxfordshire, England. The station was built by the Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway, which...
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    Cheltenham Spa railway station serves the spa town of Cheltenham, in Gloucestershire, England. Situated on the Bristol–Birmingham main line, it is managed...
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    at Chipping Norton on the building of the Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway between Chipping Norton and Kings Sutton. A bridge was built to take the...
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    Norton railway station served the village of Hook Norton in northern Oxfordshire, England. The station was built for the Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway...
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    Oxford and Rugby Railway at King's Sutton and the CNR became part of the Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway (B&CDR). Extending the railway from Chipping...
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    the line. Great Western Railway operate services from London Paddington to Gloucester and Cheltenham Spa using Class 800s, and limited local services from...
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    Western for a modified route via Bourton-on-the-Water on the Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway but the Great Western withdrew its support following objections...
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    the arrival of the Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway, via Chipping Norton, had made King's Sutton a junction. British Railways (BR) withdrew passenger...
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  • Notgrove railway station was a Gloucestershire station on the Great Western Railway's Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway. The station opened in 1881...
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  • unstaffed railway station on the Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway. When the Chipping Norton Railway from Kingham on the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton...
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    Michael (2009). Railway Passenger Stations in Great Britain. p. 229. "Presentation to the Retiring Kemble Stationmaster". Cheltenham Chronicle. England...
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    Bourton-on-the-Water to Cheltenham section of the Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway, which was operated and later taken over by the Great Western Railway. From 1891...
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    Cheltenham Spa Malvern Road railway station was a station in the town of Cheltenham. The station was opened by the Great Western Railway on 30 March 1908...
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    former Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway, part of the Great Western Railway, served Hook Norton with a railway station at East End. British Railways closed...
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    railway station was a Gloucestershire railway station on the Great Western Railway's Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway which opened in 1881 and closed...
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    coordinates) Encouraged by support from Cheltenham Borough Council, which has both given the railway direct funds and placed protected status on the former...
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  • Andoversford Junction railway station was in Gloucestershire on the Great Western Railway's Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway that opened in 1881....
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    Gloucester section of the Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway, later part of the Great Western Railway. For a period between 1886 and 1947, when Stroud...
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    from where the Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway went west to Cheltenham via Stow-on-the-Wold and east to King's Sutton near Banbury. Kingham village...
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    Gloucestershire-area Ramblers, of which Tony Drake (d. 7 March 2012) of Cheltenham area and the late Cyril Trenfield of the South Gloucestershire area were principals...
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