Heritage route
Cholsey & Wallingford Railway
Wallingford → Cholsey · England
The Great Western’s 1866 Wallingford branch, kept alive into preservation by the town’s maltings traffic: two and a half miles from Wallingford to the main line at Cholsey.
- Distance
- 4 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 45 min (round trip)
- Top speed
- 40 km/h
The Wallingford and Watlington Railway opened as far as Wallingford on 2 July 1866, two months after a banking crash made its planned line on to Watlington impossible to fund, and the Great Western bought it in 1872. Locally it was the ‘Wallingford Bunk’. Passenger trains ended in 1959, but the maltings beside the line kept it open for freight until 1981, when the society that now runs it was formed; public train rides began in 1985.
Stations
- 0 kmWallingford
- 4 kmCholsey
The stations OpenStreetMap maps along this line, in order along the line as drawn here, with the distance along it. Not every train stops at every station.
Along the way
- Wallingford station
- Cholsey, on the Great Western main line
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 164312: the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 4 m from it
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Questions and answers
How long is the Cholsey & Wallingford Railway?
The Cholsey & Wallingford Railway runs 4 km from Wallingford to Cholsey.
How long does the Cholsey & Wallingford Railway take?
Over the 4 km, the fastest scheduled journey is ≈ 45 min (round trip). The line's top service speed is 40 km/h.
Who runs the Cholsey & Wallingford Railway?
Cholsey & Wallingford Railway, with heritage diesel, railcars & steam.
How old is the Cholsey & Wallingford Railway?
The line has been in service since 1985. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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