Cotswold Line railway redoubling


Cotswold Line redoubling
  • Network Rail is reinstating double track on much of the Cotswold Line rail route between Oxford and Worcester, which was singled in the early 1970s. Charlbury station, seen here in May 1963, will regain its second track and platform.
  • Network Rail is reinstating double track on much of the Cotswold Line rail route between Oxford and Worcester, which was singled in the early 1970s. Passengers cross the tracks at Charlbury station in May 1967.
  • Network Rail is reinstating double track on much of the Cotswold Line rail route between Oxford and Worcester, which was singled in the early 1970s. A Hereford-London train arrives at Charlbury station's single platform in 1981.
  • Network Rail is reinstating double track on much of the Cotswold Line rail route between Oxford and Worcester, which was singled in the early 1970s. A Moreton-in-Marsh to Oxford diesel multiple unit train arrives at Charlbury in February 1976.
  • Network Rail is reinstating double track on much of the Cotswold Line rail route between Oxford and Worcester, which was singled in the early 1970s. A Great Western Railway express speeds through Charlbury between the World Wars.
  • Network Rail is reinstating double track on much of the Cotswold Line rail route between Oxford and Worcester, which was singled in the early 1970s. An InterCity 125 High Speed Train arrives at Charlbury in 1988 before the platform was extended.
  • Network Rail is reinstating double track on much of the Cotswold Line rail route between Oxford and Worcester, which was singled in the early 1970s. A Great Western Railway Dean Goods steam locomotive at Ascott-under-Wychwood in the 1900s.
  • Signalman Ron Huxford is pictured in Ascott-under-Wychwood signalbox in November 1973 with the start of the single line to Oxford shown on the diagram above his head. He is checking the CCTV screen monitoring nearby Bruern level crossing.
  • Network Rail is reinstating double track on much of the Cotswold Line between Oxford and Worcester, which was singled in the early 1970s. Passengers flag down a train at Ascott-under-Wychwood's single platform in August 1979.
  • Network Rail is reinstating double track on much of the Cotswold Line rail route between Oxford and Worcester, which was singled in the early 1970s. Charlbury station's garden in bloom in July 1992 alongside the single track.
  • A First Great Western Adelante train approaches Charlbury on the single track on May 7, 2003, on a run to mark the 150th anniversary of the Cotswold Line's opening in 1853. Double track will soon extend for a mile beyond the platform towards Oxford.
  • Network Rail is reinstating double track on much of the Cotswold Line between Oxford and Worcester. A First Great Western Adelante attracts good custom at Charlbury on July 26, 2004. The trees on the right are on the site of the old second platform.
  • Network Rail is reinstating double track on much of the Cotswold Line between Oxford and Worcester. An Adelante train leaves Charlbury heading towards Ascott-under-Wychwood in May 2003, on a section which will soon carry two tracks again.
  • Undergrowth encroached on the trackbed after the singling of the Cotswold Line in the 1970s, such as this section west of Charlbury, seen in July 2004
  • Vegetation clearance work for the Cotswold Line redoubling scheme began during the winter of 2008-9. This was the scene near Chadlington, between Charlbury and Ascott-under-Wychwood in March 2009.
  • Concrete troughs for signal cables await laying as part of the redoubling project as a First Great Western High Speed Train heads west towards Ascott-under-Wychwood in March 2009.
  • Track awaiting repositioning to the opposite side of the trackbed between Charlbury and Ascott-under-Wychwood to make room for the second set of rails on July 28, 2009
  • Repositioned track between Charlbury and Ascott-under-Wychwood ready to take trains again on July 30, 2009. The second track will be laid alongside in 2010.
  • Engineers at work between Charlbury and Ascott-under-Wychwood during the redoubling project on July 30, 2009
  • Network Rail is reinstating double track on much of the Cotswold Line rail route between Oxford and Worcester, which was singled in the early 1970s. An HST speeds away from Ascott-under-Wychwood towards Oxford on March 21, 2009, on the single line.
  • Network Rail is reinstating double track on much of the Cotswold Line rail route between Oxford and Worcester, which was singled in the early 1970s. New drains being installed in the trackbed at Ascott-under-Wychwood station in July 2009.
  • Network Rail is reinstating double track on much of the Cotswold Line rail route between Oxford and Worcester, which was singled in the early 1970s. Excavators at work at Ascott-under-Wychwood station in July 2009.
  • Ascott-under-Wychwood level crossing on March 21, 2009, showing the start of the existing double track section of the Cotswold Line to Moreton-in-Marsh, in Gloucestershire.
  • Ascott-under-Wychwood's 1883 Great Western Railway signalbox could be closed as part of the redoubling scheme, to be replaced by an electronic system controlled from Didcot.

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