Course of the Woodstock Railway
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Image: © John Winder Taken: 9 Oct 2011
This rather dull photograph shows the track of the Woodstock Railway, opened in 1890 as a short branch from the Oxford & Rugby line at Shipton on Cherwell to Woodstock & Blenheim. Both lines were operated by the Great Western Railway. The branch line closed in 1954.