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Swindon and Cheltenham Extension Railway

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Cirencester Watermoor

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Cirencester to Andoversford (Midland and South Western Junction Railway)

This picture encapsulates the difficulties which would have to be overcome to restore services from Cirencester to Andoversford. The town ring road ...
Ken Strachan 09/04/2023

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South Cerney

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A minature locomotive, loosely modelled on an LNER V2 2-6-2 with a Group Standard tender, giving rides with a rake of suburban coaches at the ...
Peter Todd 06/08/2017

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Cricklade

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A shot of a new drain on the extension to the S&CR, which is under construction in January 2022. The original culvert had collapsed, therefore a new ...
Peter Todd 06/01/2022

Part of the S&CR's Cricklade extension is this level crossing, now finally laid, seen on 6th January 2022. To get this far, they had to get permission ...
Peter Todd 06/01/2022

S&CR volunteers are clearing half a mile of trackbed towards Cricklade and have made good progress, sixty years after the line closed. Vegetation has ...
Peter Todd 12/03/2021

Some stockpiled material and a lot of cleared vegetation as the Swindon & Cricklade Railway volunteers progress the half mile northern extension ...
Peter Todd 12/03/2021

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Hayes Knoll

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Barclay 0-6-0ST 2138 (aka Swordfish) working the Sunday passenger trains on the Swindon & Cricklade Railway. From arriving at the SCR in 1998 ...
Peter Todd 28/05/2017

BR class 09 D3668 working passenger trains on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway at Hayes Knoll station on 22 April 2017. ...
Peter Todd 22/04/2017

I made a quick trip down to the Swindon & Cricklade Rly on 24 September 2022, in time hopefully to see the newly overhauled GWR 0-6-2T 6695 running ...
Peter Todd 24/09/2022

'Swordfish', sister engine to 'Salmon', on the move in the Hayes Knoll yard. ...
Peter Todd 07/02/2016

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Blunsdon

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BR Class 73 E6003 'Sir Herbert Walker' departing south from Blunsdon, with a Swindon & Cricklade Railway service to Taw Valley Halt, on 24th September ...
Peter Todd 24/09/2022

GWR 0-6-2T 5619 operating services on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway in September 2018. ...
Peter Todd 09/09/2018

Christmas Mail on the platform at Blunsdon, waiting for the Santa Special on 12th December 2020.
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Peter Todd 12/12/2020

BR Class 73 E6003 'Sir Herbert Walker', being the S&CR's passenger locomotive for the day, sits at the head of a train in Blunsdon station on 24th ...
Peter Todd 24/09/2022

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Blunsdon [1st]

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Taw Valley Halt

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Mouldon Hill terminus (Swindon and Cricklade Railway)

Class 73 electro-diesel E6003 'Sir Herbert Walker', S&CR duty passenger locomotive on 24th September 2022, runs round its train at the Taw Valley ...
Peter Todd 24/09/2022

Barclay 0-6-0ST Salmon shortly after taking a train away from Taw Valley Halt on The Swindon & Cricklade Railway on 23 March 2014. see image ...
Peter Todd 23/03/2014

BR class 03 D2152 at Taw Valley Halt on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway on 21 March 2015. ...
Peter Todd 21/03/2015

5637 at Taw Valley Halt on the the Swindon and Cricklade Railway on 26 April 2014. ...
Peter Todd 26/04/2014

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Moredon Platform

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Rushey Platt

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Swindon, Marlborough and Andover Railway

Remains of the 1883 station at Rushey Platt, Swindon, in May 2013. The 4-platform station stood at the south end of the spur linking the GWR with the ...
Peter Todd 21/05/2013

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Swindon and Cheltenham Extension Railway

Locations along the line

Cirencester Watermoor

South Cerney

Cricklade

Hayes Knoll

Blunsdon

Blunsdon [1st]

Taw Valley Halt

Moredon Platform

Rushey Platt

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