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A History of the County of Oxford
… 20th relied at first on river transport and later on the railway. 65 The principal shops remained concentrated on the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… supported by townspeople. 68 The East Gloucestershire Railway from Witney to Fairford, with a station, called … Water and Stow (Glos.), and another to London using the railway. 71 Carriers from Bampton to London were mentioned in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the end of the First World War W. Daffurn and several railway men met to 'break bread' at the Railway Mission on Sunday mornings. 621 In 1918 they began … opened in 1890. 625 The Army assisted with services at the Railway Mission, a group of Salvationists formed the Free …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and Southam roads, but because of its distance from the railway it was abandoned in favour of a site at Grimsbury, … long before. The Oxford Canal (1790) and the Great Western Railway (18502) both followed the axis from south-east to north-west and apart from the Buckinghamshire Railway to Verney Junction (1850) Banbury's other east-west …
A History of the County of Oxford
… coming, however, first of the canal (1778), then of the railway (1850), enhanced the town's traditional importance as … 1843. 160 The railways established were the Great Western Railway opened from Oxford to Banbury in 1850 and from Banbury to Birmingham in 1852, the Buckinghamshire Railway to Verney Junction opened in 1850, the Banbury and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… not discharged until 1856. In 1845 the Oxford and Rugby Railway Act rendered the railway company liable for all future repairs to the bridge. … 1910 much of this was spent on improvements, widening the railway bridge and some roads, asphalting them, rebuilding …
A History of the County of Oxford
… old bridge was finally destroyed when the building of the railway led to the diversion of the main stream of the river, … and was already far advanced before the coming of the railway and the development of agricultural implement-making: … a race-course at Grimsbury were sold to the Great Western Railway, the same owner sold his land to the north of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a Liverpool banker and chairman of the South Eastern Railway. 98 The Chartists agreed to give their votes to … Josiah Wilkinson, a director of the Great Eastern Railway, made much of the dangers of Radicalism. 154 The …
A Dictionary of London
… is now occupied by Queen Victoria Street and St. Paul's Railway Station. Banister's Lane East out of Blackfriars to …