Didcot Railway Centre is a railway museum and preservation engineering site in Didcot, Oxfordshire, England. The site was formerly a Great Western Railway...
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Didcot (/ˈdɪdkɒt, -kət/ DID-kot, -kət) is a railway town and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England, located 15 miles (24 km) south of Oxford, 10...
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Didcot Parkway is a railway station serving Didcot, a town in Oxfordshire, England. The station was opened as Didcot on 12 June 1844 and was renamed Didcot...
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| Didcot Railway Centre". didcotrailwaycentre.org.uk. Didcot Railway Centre. Retrieved 2 May 2023. "1014 County Project | Hawksworth County | Didcot"....
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GWR 4073 Class 4079 Pendennis Castle (category Preserved Great Western Railway steam locomotives)
returning to England in 2000, the engine awaited restoration at Didcot Railway Centre, its new base, which took volunteers 16 years to complete. In August...
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GWR 4073 Class 5051 Earl Bathurst (category Railway locomotives introduced in 1936)
Western Railway (GWR) Castle Class locomotive built at Swindon Works in May 1936 and named after Dryslwyn Castle. It is owned by the Didcot Railway Centre. 5051...
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GWR 2900 Class 2999 Lady of Legend (category Preserved Great Western Railway steam locomotives)
Class No. 4942 Maindy Hall, and was largely constructed at Didcot Railway Centre in Didcot, Oxfordshire, where it is now based. Described as "building...
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GWR 4900 Class 5900 Hinderton Hall (category Railway locomotives introduced in 1931)
Hinderton Hall is a 4-6-0 GWR 4900 Class locomotive preserved at Didcot Railway Centre. It was designed by Collett in 1928, built at Swindon in 1931 as...
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GWR 6000 Class 6023 King Edward II (category Railway locomotives introduced in 1930)
then bought by the Great Western Society (GWS) and moved to the Didcot Railway Centre in March 1990 for its restoration to continue. The restoration included...
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Didcot power station (Didcot B Power Station) is an active natural gas power plant that supplies the National Grid. A combined coal and oil power plant...
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Mark Needham) and an open platform were rented by Queen from the Didcot Railway Centre in Oxfordshire and repainted for the video. In particular, the group...
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George England and Co. for the Sandy and Potton Railway and now preserved at the Didcot Railway Centre. The locomotive was built in 1857 by George England...
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GWR 4073 Class (category Great Western Railway locomotives)
Great Western Society and restored to operational condition at the Didcot Railway Centre in 2021. As of 2024[update], three Castles are operational. Both...
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GWR No. 1340 Trojan (category Preserved Great Western Railway steam locomotives)
preserved at the Didcot Railway Centre. It was restored to working order in 2002 and remained in service on demonstration trains at Didcot until 2011 when...
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GWR 7800 Class 7827 Lydham Manor (category Railway locomotives introduced in 1950)
to other heritage railways/centres including, Didcot Railway Centre in 2010 before it was painted in BR black, South Devon Railway in a visit for September...
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railmotor built in 1908 is operational and based at Didcot Railway Centre. Riches, the Taff Vale Railway's locomotive engineer, designed in 1903 the first...
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GWR autocoach (category Great Western Railway coaching stock)
Vehicles. Didcot: Wild Swan. pp. 11–13. ISBN 0-906867-99-1. Kingdom, Anthony R; Lang, Mike (2004). The Newton Abbot to Moretonhampstead Railway. ARK Publications...
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British 2–8–0. Retrieved 13 August 2022. "7027 Thornbury Castle | Didcot Railway Centre". didcotrailwaycentre.org.uk. Retrieved 13 August 2022. Perton,...
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GWR 1361 Class (category Great Western Railway locomotives)
1363 is based at the Didcot Railway Centre, and as of 2014 was dismantled for overhaul to working order. Kernow Model Rail Centre announced plans in 2014...
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GWR 5700 Class (category Great Western Railway locomotives)
Devon Railway. Buckinghamshire Railway. Jones 2014, p. 142. Jones 2014, p. 139. Great Western Society 3650. 3650 - 57XX Class Didcot Railway Centre Great...
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plans for the different engines (see below). "News | Latest News". Didcot Railway Centre. Retrieved 24 February 2012. "4115". Preserved British Steam Locomotives...
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of Steam) Devon Railway Centre, Devon Didcot Railway Centre Doncaster Railway Works, Doncaster, South Yorkshire Great Central Railway (Nottingham) East...
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel (redirect from 7-foot gauge railway)
Kingswear. The Swindon Steam Railway Museum has many artefacts from Brunel's time on the Great Western Railway. The Didcot Railway Centre has a reconstructed segment...
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Tyseley Locomotive Works (redirect from Tyseley Railway Museum)
Castle Class in 1923. In connection to an event taking place at Didcot Railway Centre involving resident engines 4079 Pendennis Castle and 5051 Drysllwyn...
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British Rail 18000 (category Railway locomotives introduced in 1949)
June 2010. Moved to Didcot Railway Centre Since then, it has moved to Didcot. It arrived at the yard, west of Didcot Parkway railway station, on 20 July...
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Transfer table (redirect from Traverser (railway))
Ohio. It allowed a single turntable to serve a linear train shed. Didcot Railway Centre, UK, has a traverser for transferring coaching stock between the...
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GWR 1000 Class 1014 County of Glamorgan (category Railway locomotives introduced in 1946)
which is under construction as a "new-build" project, based at Didcot Railway Centre in Didcot, Oxfordshire. Unlike most other new-build projects which are...
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The Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway (DN&SR) was a cross-country railway running north–south between Didcot, Newbury and Winchester. Its promoters...
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The palace is linked to the Walled Garden by a miniature railway, the Blenheim Park Railway. The public have free access to about five miles (8 km) of...
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