A walk in the sun
Decided to take a walk and found an area that we didnt know existed. Was nice to get out for some excercise while under restriction for the covid 19 virus.
Exploring the remains of the old BCDR line from Kings Sutton to Rollright Halt
The lost Banbury to Cheltenham direct railway B&CDR A short quote below about the line from the pages of wikipedia, The full information can be found here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banbury_and_Cheltenham_Direct_Railway 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 B&CDR opened its western section, from Bourton-on-the-Water to a junction near Cheltenham, in 1881, and its eastern section, from Chipping Norton to a junction at Kings Sutton , near Banbury, in 1887. The company was always short of money, and the timescale of construction was correspondingly lengthy. When the extensions opened, the Great Western Railway worked the B&CDR line and the two earlier branches as a single...
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