IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Heyford Road, BICESTER, OX25 4SN
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Heyford Road, OX25 4SN by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Listing (26 Images Found)
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If you go down to the woods today
Sneaking out of a little wooded area to the left comes a dirty great blue steam locomotive. It's only 2' gauge but quite impressive close up. This a Darjeeling Himalayan Railway B class locomotive built in Glasgow in 1889 as an 0-4-0 with well and saddle tanks. It also runs with a tender. This was a ticket only event at the private Beeches Light Railway
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 9 Aug 2014
0.01 miles
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Darjeeling Himalayan Railway in deepest Oxfordshire
DHR B class locomotive No. 19 is attacking the bank on the Beeches Light Railway. This was a ticket only event but absolutely magnificent. The noise that this 2' gauge engine could make was quite awesome and without the two men hand sanding from the front buffer beam there was an occasional slip.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 9 Aug 2014
0.02 miles
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Darjeeling Himalayan Railway - aka Beeches Light Railway
Locomotive No. 19 is getting stuck into one of the two main banks on this line. After lunch it went the other way round and came down this bank.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 9 Aug 2014
0.02 miles
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Beeches Light Railway - engine sheds
A private railway on a ticket only event. This is modelled on the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway and was a marvellous day out with lunch thrown in. The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Society arranges visits at least once a year and tickets can be bought via its website.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 9 Aug 2014
0.02 miles
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Beeches Light Railway - descending the bank
Although the locomotive is descending there is still a significant amount of 'clag'.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 9 Aug 2014
0.03 miles
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Beeches Light Railway - interesting vehicle
The site's owner saw a photograph of a device like this being used on an American railroad and had his own replica built using a genuine Ford Model T. This includes a jacking system that will lift the wheels free of the rails and allow it to be rotated on its axis in order to go the other way round. This was carrying passengers during the lunch break and I had a ride before joining a long queue for my pork with roll and salad.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 9 Aug 2014
0.03 miles
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The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway - Ringkingpong Station
That's the name on the replica station building. The locomotive is a genuine Darjeeling Himalayan Railway locomotive - No. 19 built in 1889 by Sharp, Stewart & Co of Glasgow. The two carriages are replicas built on the Festiniog Railway. This was a private, ticket only event at the Beeches light Railway, which is modelled on a real railway far from these shores.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 9 Aug 2014
0.03 miles
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Ringkingpong Station
This is not the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (or the Darj as it is affectionately known) but the Beeches Light Railway in Oxfordshire. This is invitation only but I did get my ticket via the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Society website - but do be warned - it's infrequent and cost £22 in 2014. You do get an interesting visit though.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 9 Aug 2014
0.03 miles
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Not your usual through the windscreen shot.
I know it's an execrable practice and frowned upon by the Geograph cognoscenti, but it had to be done. The vehicle is a Model T Ford (at least the engine and body are) but you can see it appears to be on a railway line. Well, that's because it is on a railway line. A 2' gauge one to be precise. The vehicle can be seen here - Image
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 9 Aug 2014
0.05 miles
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Beeches Light Railway - attacking the bank
Darjeeling Himalayan Railway locomotive No. 19, built in Glasgow in 1889, is hammering up one of two steep banks on this 'garden railway'. On the real railway there would be two men on the buffer beam hand sanding the rail-head from the blue sand box in the middle. A ticket only steaming on this private railway.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 9 Aug 2014
0.05 miles