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Oxfordshire Ironstone Railway
Legend
Banbury on the Cherwell Valley line
Leamington Spa – Banbury
Stone industry rail terminal.
Alcan Factory sidings (opened early 1920s, lifted mid 1950s)
Alcan Factory depot (lifted late 1950s)
Alcan Factory sidings (lifted early 1950s)
A423 road bridge (demolished 1967)
The railway bridge over a local brook, closed and became a
footbridge after 1967. It was replaced in 2007 by a short culvert pipe.
Sidings (opened early 1920s, lifted mid 1950s)
Hardwick signal box (closed and demolished since 1967)
Sidings (opened early 1920s, lifted mid 1950s)
Engine shed.(closed and demolished since 1967)
Hardwick loco sidings and depot (lifted 1964)
WW2 pill box class bunker, demolished by 2000.
Hardwick Farm Crossing (line lifted 1967)
Pen Hill workers' halt (demolished 1967)
Sidings (opened late 1920s, lifted mid 1950s)
Pen Hill maintenance depot (demolished 1967)
Local stream culverted in the 1920s.
The planned Pin Hill maintenance depot (planned in the 1920s).
Sidings (opened early 1920s, lifted mid 1950s)
Pen Hill Farm grading plant and engine shed (demolished 1967)
Highlands Road, Banbury
Nethrop Fields loco sidings (lifted 1964)
B4100 road bridge
Niethrop Fields Signal Box (demolished 1967)
Drayton tool shed/privy (derelict, assumedly closed since 1967)
Drayton P-hut/signal box (closed since 1967)
Drayton Village Crossing (line lifted 1967)
The bridge over Stor Brook,
replaced in 1967 by a short culvert pipe
Farm Lane Crossing (line lifted 1967)
Woxton-Hanwell Road Crossing (line lifted 1967)
Moor Mill Hill Path Crossing (line lifted 1967)
Bridge over Horley–Wroxton road (Demolished 1968)
Horley signal box (demolished 1967)
Horley Village Crossing (line lifted 1967)
Horley tool shed/p-hut (closed since 1967)
Horley sidings (closed and lifted 1967)
Wroxton Depot (built by 1925, closed and lifted 1967)
Friars Hill Sidings(built by 1945, closed and lifted 1952)
Drift Lane Crossing\Wroxton Village Crossing (line lifted 1967)
Wroxton worker's halt and ore works(built 1919, closed 1967, demolished 2006)
Engine shed.(closed and demolished since 1967, demolished 2006)
Wroxton Central Ironstone Quarry
opened by 1919, closed and filled in 1967)
Horley workings (built by 1945, closed and lifted 1952)
Ragnel sidings (built by 1945, closed and lifted 1952)
New Inn spurs and Ragnel mine workings.
(built 1952 and 1947, both lifted 1967)
the Heath Farm workings and Gentra spurs
(built by 1945 and 1952, both lifted 1967)
Langley Ironstone Quarry (built by 1926, closed and filled 1943)
Dyke Lane Bridge (built 1940 and abandoned 1967)
Dyke Lane Bridge workings and siding
built ~1940–1941, closed 1949, filled in by 1967
A422 road
Water tower (built by World War II and demolished ~2004–2005)
Balscote crossing, lifted 1967)
Balscote Quarry (built by 1956, closed and filled 1967)
Sidings (built by 1952, closed and lifted 1967)
The Oxfordshire Ironstone Railway was a standard-gauge industrial railway that served an ironstone quarry near the village of Wroxton in Oxfordshire.[1][2][3]
^"Geograph:: Fields on the site of the old Langley... (C) Oliver Dixon".[self-published source]
^"Ironstone Enquiry Pictures". Deddington History. 2004. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
^"Take a ride on our lost railways". Oxford Mail. 14 December 2009. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
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