Cotswold Line railway redoubling


Cotswold Line redoubling
  • A train enters the single-line section of the Cotswold Line towards Oxford at Ascott-under-Wychwood on March 21, 2009. From 2011, trains will be running on double track from here until just east of Charlbury.
  • Network Rail is reinstating double track on much of the Cotswold Line rail route between Oxford and Worcester. The rails of the single track poke through fresh snow at Charlbury station in 2008
  • Network Rail is reinstating double track on much of the Cotswold Line between Oxford and Worcester. An excavator is seen at work clearing the old trackbed out of Chipping Campden tunnel, in Gloucestershire, in July 2009.
  • A soggy scene at the entrance to Chipping Campden tunnel, in Gloucestershire, in July 2009, with the old single track removed to allow renewal of the drains before new double track is laid.
  • David Northey, one of the Network Rail managers responsible for the redoubling scheme, at Chipping Campden tunnel on July 28, 2009.
  • Network Rail is reinstating double track on much of the Cotswold Line rail route between Oxford and Worcester. This is the Mickleton portal of Chipping Campden tunnel on July 28, 2009 with stone chippings stockpiled ahead of tracklaying.
  • 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. Engineers place new drains inside Chipping Campden tunnel on July 28, 2009
  • Lifting a section of drain into place in the trackbed at Chipping Campden tunnel, in Gloucestershire, on July 28, 2009
  • Engineers use old-fashioned muscle power to construct a drainage sump just outside Chipping Campden tunnel on July 28, 2009
  • Network Rail is reinstating double track on much of the Cotswold Line. A First Great Western HST is pictured climbing from the Vale of Evesham to Chipping Campden tunnel after vegetation clearance on the route in early 2009.
  • Network Rail is reinstating double track on much of the Cotswold Line. Stone chippings are pictured stockpiled just outside Chipping Campden tunnel for track relaying, July 2009.
  • Network Rail is reinstating double track on much of the Cotswold Line between Oxford and Worcester, which was singled in the early 1970s. Chipping Campden tunnel before renovation work began in 2009
  • The southern approach to Chipping Campden tunnel after track repositioning and work to stabilise the cutting sides in August 2009. The track through the tunnel is on a 1 in 100 gradient.
  • The first section of reinstated double track on the Cotswold Line emerges from the Mickleton portal at the north end of Chipping Campden tunnel in Gloucestershire in August 2009.
  • Network Rail Cotswold Line redoubling project manager Ross Mahoney, left, and redoubling scheme sponsor David Northey, right, at Worcester Shrub Hill station on April 15, 2010, ahead of a inspection train run to Oxford.
  • Ascott-under-Wychwood Parish Council chairman Stuart Fox at the village's GWR signalbox, built in 1883, which has been granted a reprieve and will get a new digital control panel as part of the redoubling scheme.
  • Network Rail's high-speed New Measurement Train passes over Ascott-under-Wychwood level crossing on an inspection run from Worcester to Oxford on April 15, 2010.
  • A map of the Cotswold Line showing where new double track will be laid to replace rails removed in the early 1970s
  • The end of the line at Ascott-under-Wychwood level crossing during track renewal work on Sunday, June 27, 2010, during preparatory work for the redoubling scheme
  • An excavator covers newly-laid drains in the trackbed at Charlbury station during preparatory work for the redoubling project on Sunday, June 27, 2010. The station will get an extra set of rails and a new platform on the right
  • Network Rail's David Northey, left, and Phil Bates at Hinksey Sidings in Oxford on December 17, 2010. The sidings are being used as the main supply base for the Cotswold Line redoubling project.
  • Unloading stone ballast for railway tracks from a train at Network Rail's Hinksey Sidings engineering depot in Oxford on December 17, 2010
  • Colin Butcher in the cab of an excavator unloading stone ballast from a train at Network Rail's Hinksey Sidings depot in Oxford on December 17, 2010
  • Hinksey Sidings in Oxford on December 17, 2010. The sidings are being used as the main supply base for the Cotswold Line redoubling project.

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