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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 The section from Slough to Windsor Castle was withdrawn in 1963.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]
Slough rail accident – 16 June 1900 – An express train from Paddington to Falmouth Docks ran through two sets of signals at danger and collided with a local train heading for Windsor. Five passengers were killed and 35 seriously injured. [67]
Slough–Windsor & Eton line: 1849: South East — South Eastern Main Line: Cannon Street or Charing Cross to Dover Priory: 1842–1871: London, South East: Third rail, 750 V DC: Staines–Windsor line: 1848–1849: South East: Third rail, 750 V DC: Sutton and Mole Valley lines: 1847–1868: London, South East: Third rail, 750 V DC: Tattenham ...
The Windsor Link Railway was a 2009 proposal for a new railway connecting the Great Western and South West Trains franchise areas and potentially linking both to Heathrow Airport. Windsor & Eton Central and Windsor & Eton Riverside railway stations would have been replaced with one through-route station in the Windsor Goswells.
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Windsor & Eton Riverside station is a station in Windsor, Berkshire, England.The station, close to the River Thames and Windsor Castle, is a Grade II listed building. [1] It is 25 miles 48 chains (41.2 km) down the line from London Waterloo and is the terminus of the Staines to Windsor Line, served by South Western Railway.
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).