Talk by Robert Avery
Archive Notes:
Summary of an illustrated talk given by Robert Avery on the Wheatley Railway 12.02.04 For photos see also records 1697, 1698, 1699, 1700 and 1701.
The railway opened in 1864, serving Oxford, High Wycombe, with a link to London via Maidenhead. Lady Otteline Morrell, owner of Garsington Manor, was a passenger on the line. Adjacent to the station was Avery’s saw mills; William Avery ran a furniture business in High Wycombe, and the rail connection was ideal for running a large industry in Wheatley. The Beeching cuts of 1960s closed the line in 1964, the track was lifted in 1969 and the bridge over the railway line, blown up in 1971.The new development off Ladder Hill, Kelham Hall Drive, was named after a locomotive that used the line.
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Related Items:
- Ladder Hill, Wheatley
- Wheatley from Ladder Hill circa 1927
- Jewson's Timber Storage Warehouse
- Ladder Hill
- Mobbs Coal Yard
- Avery's timber work shops
- Kelham Hall Drive
- Ladder Hill
- Ladder Hill - Hill Farm
- Mobbs Coal Yard & Station Yard
- Kelham Hall Drive
- Sale catalogue for Hill Farm, Ladder Hill
- Ladder Hill c.1914 and during WW2
- Ladder Hill
- View fron Ladder Hill to the Church in the 2000s
- Avery's Sawmill (extract)
- Three pictures of Wheatley station
- Avery's Sawmill 1880-1956
- William Avery's Timber Yard
- William Avery and his workforce
- Alfred Thurston and his steam crane.
- Railway tickets
- A Little Book About Wheatley Station
- Wheatley Station and trains
- Buildings at Wheatley Railway Station
- Wheatley Coal Wagons
- Maps of Wheatley Station
- Map of Oxford- Risborough Railway line
- Photo of railway bridge over the A40 at Wheatley
- Photo of ex-GWR railcar
- Photo of signal at Wheatley
- Photo of Engine 6144
- Photo of approach to Wheatley Station
- Photo of Hartlebury Castle
- Wheatley Station
- Wheatley Station
- Railway timetable, 1935
- Railway timetable, 1950
- Photo of Dukedog engine heading towards Wheatley
- Photos of Wheatley railway bridge over A40
- 19th century handlist of Oxon rail proposals
- Map showing rail proposal, 1852
- Photograph of GWR Dean locomotive
- Photo of railmen
- Picture of Wheatley Station
- Pictures of repair work to Shotover tunnel in Horspath
- Pictures of Wheatley station
- Picture of railway bridge over A40
- Picture of train at Wheatley
- Further views of Wheatley's railtrack
- 1955 goods engine at Wheatley
- Two views of Wheatley station
- Two views of Wheatley station sign
- Photograph of Wheatley signalman
- Further pictures of Mr Ladbrook
- Photos of railway personnel at Wheatley
- Wheatley's last train
- Wheatley-Risborough ticket
- Wheatley's rail relics
- Closing the line and demolishing the Ladder Hill bridge
- Working a single line railway
- Edward Elton and the first railway in Wheatley
- Disused railway line 1987
- Towersey Halt
- Eight rail photgraphs taken at Thame station
- Eight rail and other photographs at Morris Cowley
- Rail photographs taken at Littlemore
- Five Railway photographs at Oxford (1950s)
- Proposed new railway link
- Wheatley station at the turn of the century
- Booklet of eight views of Wheatley c.1950
- The Hinton Collection of early postcards of Wheatley - 1913-1915
- Wheatley Station circa 1910
- Photographs from 'Oxfordshire Railways'
- Photographs of London bound train
- 'Up Platform'
- Wheatley Station 1963
- Wheatley Station and Saw Mill
- Wheatley Station
- Wheatley Station
- Recollections of Wheatley GWR by Robert Avery
- Photo of Wheatley station & wood yard
- Railway Station
- Littleworth Railway Tunnel
- Wheatley Rail Station plan
- Line of old railway on modern map
- Rail network
- Window taken from station-master's house
- Wheatley station with Avery's sawmill evident
- The coming of the railway to Wheatley
- Rail motor-car service
- Railway at Wheatley - various posts from third parties
- Assorted press cuttings from 1980 to 1982
- Wheatley's railway history
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