Railways of Oxfordshire - part 2

Following his talk to the Oxford Civic Society on the history of the railways of Oxfordshire last year, Laurence Waters turned his attention to some of the branch lines in the Vale, including the Abingdon Branch, Didcot Junction to Uffington, Faringdon and the Wantage Tramway. As photograph archivist for the Great Western archive at Didcot, Laurence brought an unparalleled insight into local railway history.

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Some years ago, I did amounts of film extra work. I did several pieces of work on the TV series 'Lark Rise to Candleford'.
In one of them, I and others played the parts of rail track layers. An extremely cold, wet, December afternoon hulking a rail into position, all the while singing the lyrics of the song... 'Oxford and Hampton Railway'. I'd never heard of it before.