SP4640 : 'Burton Agnes Hall' at Banbury on Up express
taken 66 years ago, near to Banbury, Oxfordshire, England
'Burton Agnes Hall' at Banbury on Up express
View northward, towards Birmingham etc. on ex-GWR London etc. - Birmingham etc. main line, also towards Woodford Halse and the North on the ex-GC line. 'Modified Hall' 4-6-0 No. 6998 (built 1/49, withdrawn 12/65 but now preserved at the Didcot Railway Centre) has taken over - in filthy condition - from an ER locomotive the 12.10 Sheffield Victoria (via Nottingham Victoria, Leicester Central and Woodford Halse) to Bournemouth, via Oxford, Reading West Curve, Basingstoke and Southampton, which it will work as far as Basingstoke.
The Link8" target="_blank">Banbury North signal box is demolished Despite fights to save it the box was destroyed in the early hours of the 26th of March 2017.