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A former GWR locomotive 6664 photographed near the engine shed at Slough, October 1955. A 2-car Class 165 DMU, on the brick viaduct carrying the GWR line into Windsor (looking east towards Eton College). The wrought iron railway bridge at Windsor. (Picture shows downstream side, looking towards Windsor.)
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.
Located roughly 20 miles (32 km) west of Central London, Slough is a commuter town near Heathrow Airport (7 miles (11 km) south-east), Uxbridge (6 miles (9.7 km) north-east), Maidenhead (5 miles (8.0 km) west) and Staines (7 miles (11 km) south-east). Slough residents also commute to Windsor, Reading and Bracknell as well as Central London.
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 lines of the London and South Western Railway ran from Waterloo to Windsor via Richmond, with a loop via Hounslow.They started as the Richmond Railway, a simple independent branch line, but they developed a distinct identity and had their own approach to Waterloo alongside the Main Lines, and a distinct section of Waterloo station.
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 The section from Slough to Windsor Castle was withdrawn in 1963.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]
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 ]