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Recollections of Wheatley – GWR, by Robert Avery

By WVAclone Posted on 25 September 2014 Posted in Industries, People, Railway, Trains Tagged with GWR, Robert Avery

The following is a transcription of an original typed manuscript dated 19/8/74 by Robert Avery, a former schoolmaster at Magdalen College School and resident of Wheatley. It is a set of recollections of the village railway, and includes mention of …

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By WVAclone Posted on 23 January 2013 Posted in Railway, Transport Tagged with Trains

‘There was only the train at one time, no buses, but by the 1960s everyone had a car and there were plenty of buses. The train was losing money. Contributed by Phyllis Shepherd (née Washington, born 1907), December 1999 ‘My …

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Recollections of Wheatley – GWR, by Robert Avery

The Railway