Catalogue description Records of Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway

This record is held by Royal Berkshire Archives

Details of D\EX 1495
Reference: D\EX 1495
Title: Records of Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway
Date: 1881-1923
Held by: Royal Berkshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway Company, 1873-1883
Physical description: 4 volumes
Immediate source of acquisition:

(acc. 6193)
Subjects:
  • Railway transport
Administrative / biographical background:

Introduction; [The Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Junction Railway Company was incorporated in 1873, and renamed the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway Company in 1883. It was absorbed by the Great Western Railway Company in 1923. The main archives are held at the Public Record Office (classes RAIL 156 and 1057).

 

The line ran from Didcot to Shawford, Hants, via Compton, Hampstead Norreys, Newbery, Whitchurch (Hants) and Winchester, and it was proposed to extend it to Southampton. It closed in the 1960s.

 

For a history, see T.B. Sands, The Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway (Surrey 1971).]

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