1968

SU5886 : Auto-train on the Wallingford branch (3) - 1968

taken 56 years ago, near to Cholsey, Oxfordshire, England

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Auto-train on the Wallingford branch (3) - 1968
Auto-train on the Wallingford branch (3) - 1968
Framed by the arch of the Bullshole footpath tunnel under the mainline GWR 0-4-2T 1466 heads its solitary auto-coach towards the mainline junction at Cholsey. St Mary's church appears in the misty background.

On Easter Monday 1968 the Great Western Society, which had moved into its Didcot depot the previous year, operated an auto-train service on the nearby 2½ mile Wallingford branch. This ran from a junction at Cholsey & Moulsford station on the GWR mainline. (This has since been shortened to Cholsey). Public services had ceased in June 1959 but goods traffic to the Associated British Maltsters Ltd mill continued until 1981. Since then the branch has been taken over by the Cholsey & Wallingford Railway (LinkExternal link ). Unfortunately the station at Wallingford has long been demolished & the site redeveloped.
Auto train

An 'auto' aka 'motor' train, or 'push-and-pull' train ran with cable connections from the driver's special compartment with window at the other end of the train (usually one coach), so that when in pushing mode the driver controlled the locomotive remotely, only the fireman staying on the footplate.


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Geographical Context: Village, Rural settlement Railways Primary Subject: Railway Train
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Cholsey [1153] · Cholsey Station [465] · St Mary's [87] · St Mary's Church [36] ·
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SU5886, 1782 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Martin Tester   (more nearby)
Date Taken
15 April 1968   (more nearby)
Submitted
Friday, 26 March, 2021
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SU 5821 8642 [10m precision]
WGS84: 51:34.4191N 1:9.6871W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SU 5816 8635
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North-northeast (about 22 degrees)
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