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The Slough–Windsor & Eton line is a branch railway line 2 miles 63 chains (4.5 km) long, in Berkshire, England. Trains run between the line's only two stations, Slough and Windsor & Eton Central .
The route goes back to the 1900s. Its original course was from Hounslow to Windsor Castle. By the 1940s, the route only operated on a daily basis from Hounslow to Slough, serving Eton and Windsor only at weekends. The section from Slough to Windsor Castle was withdrawn in 1963. [1]
A significant portion of the station has been converted into a shopping complex named Windsor Royal Shopping; [2] a ticket office and truncated platform remain for services on the Slough–Windsor & Eton line. The station is 400 metres (0.25 mi) from Windsor's other station, Windsor & Eton Riverside, the terminus for services from London Waterloo.
Slough station is a junction between the Great Western Main Line and the Slough to Windsor & Eton Line to allow passengers to connect for Windsor & Eton Central. Reading: Great Western Railway operate fast services to Reading every half an hour which take about 15 minutes, as well as slow services every fifteen minutes which take 30 minutes.
It carries the branch line between Slough and Windsor. The Windsor Railway Bridge was designed by the famed British civil engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and is considered to be a forerunner to his last major work, the Royal Albert Bridge. It was built during the 1840s to carry the Slough to Windsor & Eton Line of the Great Western Railway (GWR).
For a brief period between 1883 and 1885, the District Railway ran services between London and Windsor & Eton Central via Ealing Broadway over the GWR tracks from Slough. [26] The Aylesbury and Buckingham Railway was formed next in August 1860 to build a line between Aylesbury [A 2] and Verney Junction on the LNWR Buckinghamshire Railway. It ...
Eton (/ ˈ iː t ən / EE-tən) is a town in Berkshire, England, on the opposite bank of the River Thames to Windsor, connected to it by Windsor Bridge. The civil parish , which also includes the village of Eton Wick two miles west of the town, had a population of 4,692 at the 2011 Census . [ 1 ]
The Windsor, Staines and South Western Railway was absorbed by the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) in 1848. [24] In the same year, 1849, the Slough to Windsor & Eton Line opened from Slough in Buckinghamshire to Windsor & Eton Central again receiving opposition from Eton College.