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    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 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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 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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    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 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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    of Steam) Devon Railway Centre, Devon Didcot Railway Centre Doncaster Railway Works, Doncaster, South Yorkshire Great Central Railway (Nottingham) East...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • English Channel for filming, and a large green screen was erected at Didcot Railway Centre, where a large action scene was filmed the following month. In late...
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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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    GWR steam rail motors (category Great Western Railway locomotives)
    was sold to the Great Western Society and moved to their base at Didcot Railway Centre but it was not until 1998 that they were able to make a start on...
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  • Dockyard Railway, Kent Didcot Railway Centre, Didcot, Oxfordshire London Transport Museum, Covent Garden, Central London Southall Railway Centre, Southall...
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    Potton (section Railway)
    housed at Didcot Railway Centre. The Potton Barbershop Harmony Club named its male chorus 'Shannon Express' after the locomotive. Potton railway station...
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