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The Avon Valley Railway (AVR) is a standard gauge heritage railway in South Gloucestershire, England, operated by a local group, the Avon Valley Railway Company Ltd.The 3-mile (5 km) heritage line runs from Oldland Common to Avon Riverside.
The Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway (B&CDR) was a railway company through the Cotswolds in England that built a line between points near Banbury and Cheltenham.Its principal objective, as well as a general rural rail service, was the conveyance of iron ore from the East Midlands to South Wales.
The Class 158 is a two- or three-coach DMU used on regional express services in the former Wessex Trains area. In February 2008, as part of its Remedial Plan Notice, First Great Western announced that it would form some hybrid three-car Class 158 units in March 2008, made possible by the transfer of five Class 150/2 units from Arriva Trains ...
By this time, the line to King's Sutton was open only for freight and a token passenger service operated to Chipping Norton. [27] British Railways withdrew passenger services from Kingham to Cheltenham and Chipping Norton in 1962, and freight services in 1964. British Rail designated the Oxford and Worcester line "The Cotswold Line".
Between 2000 and 2010, the station was the base of Cotswold Rail, a spot-hire company for shunting and mainline locomotives, which went into liquidation. In August 2019, the direct Great Western train service from London Paddington station to the Moreton-in-Marsh railway station (code MIM) was expected to take under two hours. [ 5 ]
Bitton railway station is the main station (and headquarters) of the Avon Valley Railway.It is located near the village of Bitton, South Gloucestershire.. The station was opened on 4 August 1869, however was shut due to the Beeching cuts, closing to freight trains on 5 July 1965, and to passengers on 7 March 1966. [1]
The line between Oxford and Worcester was built under an 1845 act of parliament and opened in 1851 as part of the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway.. The Act required the line to be built to Isambard Kingdom Brunel's 7 feet 1 ⁄ 4 inch (2,140 mm) broad gauge but delays, disputes and increasing costs led to its being completed as 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge.
Bath Spa railway station is the principal station serving the city of Bath in Somerset, England.It is on the Great Western Main Line, 106 miles 71 chains (106.89 mi; 172.0 km) down the line from the zero point at London Paddington between Chippenham to the east and Oldfield Park to the west. [2]