Ancestors

Written by Hugh @ FOSDEM on 2025-01-19 at 13:53

The Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway closed in the 1960s (Beeching) having never made it all the way to Southampton.

There's still a surprising amount of it left - I walked the trackbed near Didcot a few years ago, and the viaduct just outside Winchester is now part of the NCN.

This section crosses the River Test and is in good condition. Some beached wagons remain on an overbridge, but the A34 (built 30 years post-closure) severs the trackbed into Whitchurch.

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Written by Hugh @ FOSDEM on 2025-01-19 at 13:58

Notably the structures on this route are not brick, as they initially appear, but a concrete core faced with brick. The aforementioned viaduct is historically significant in that regard, although I don't believe they succeeded in listing it.

Someone (who presumably owns the land) has turned one of the freight wagons into a rather nice looking 'shed'!

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Written by Hugh @ FOSDEM on 2025-01-19 at 13:59

(The great irony of the A34 is that it essentially recreates the railway link that was lost)

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Written by Hugh @ FOSDEM on 2025-01-19 at 14:19

Ah. I think there might be something missing here...

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Written by Hugh @ FOSDEM on 2025-01-19 at 15:05

Some more bridge photos.

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