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The Slough–Windsor & Eton line is a branch railway line 2 miles 63 chains (4.5 km) ... The line opened, despite opposition from Eton College, on 8 October 1849.
The construction of what would become Slough to Windsor & Eton Line was an early ambition of the Great Western Railway (GWR), but had been delayed and thus unable to be included in the original act of Parliament obtained by the company on account of objections raised by the Provost of the nearby Eton College. [3]
The main entrance to the station, opposite Windsor Castle. Windsor Station opened on 8 October 1849 [1] on the completion of the branch line from Slough but only after considerable opposition from the leadership at Eton College, which was convinced that the proximity of a railway would lead the Eton boys astray.
Windsor & Eton Central railway station (served from Slough) and Windsor & Eton Riverside railway station (served from Staines) both opened in 1849 despite the opposition from the College. Its approach road, Mackenzie Street, which ran from the Great West Road to the station, was much wider than an approach road would otherwise have needed to ...
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.
Slough is served by Great Western Railway stations at Burnham, [66] Slough [67] and Langley. [68] 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.
Eton College (/ ˈ iː t ən / ⓘ EE-tən) [3] is a public fee-charging and boarding secondary school for boys aged 13–18, in Eton, Berkshire, England.It has educated prime ministers, world leaders, Nobel laureates, Academy Award and BAFTA award-winning actors, and generations of the aristocracy, and has been referred to as "the nurse of England's statesmen". [4]
It depicts a view of Windsor in Berkshire, some miles west of London. Despite the presence of Windsor Castle and Eton College on the skyline, the focus is on the farm labourers harvesting turnips during the winter. [2] The turnips were then used to fatten cattle. [3] The style echoes the work of Claude Lorraine, who Turner admired. [4]