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Electrifying Didcot Parkway

I took these pictures as I went through Didcot Parkway station this morning.

They seem to be using T-shaped central masts as they did at West Ham and I wrote about in Central Masts At West Ham.

This Google Map shows the station.

Didcot Parkway Station

Didcot Parkway Station

If you read the Wikipedia entry for the station, you may come to a similar conclusion to myself – In a decade or so’s time, the pattern of services at the station will be very different.

Wikipedia says this about use of the West Curve that allows trains to go between Oxford and Swindon.

There are at present no scheduled passenger services which use the West Curve to avoid the station on direct services from Oxford to Swindon.

But once the East West Rail Link is built, will we see services from Swindon, Bristol and the West using the West Curve to go to Oxford, Milton Keynes and the East?

 

 

March 25, 2016 - Posted by | Transport/Travel | ,

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