page_title: Didcot Railway Centre
section_title: Running lines
hierarchical_section_title: Didcot Railway Centre / Museum and railway centre / Running lines
caption_attribution_description: English: SR 4-4-0 at Didcot. View northward across the ex-GWR London - Reading - Swindon etc. main line just west of the station at Didcot. A relatively unusual sight: ex-LSW Drummond class T9 4-4-0 No. 30120 (built 8/1899, withdrawn 7/63 and now preserved on the Bodmin &amp; Wenford Railway) is passing the Goods yard before working the 15.38 stopping train to Southampton via Newbury and Winchester.
context_page_description: Didcot Railway Centre is a former Great Western Railway engine-shed and locomotive stabling point located in Didcot, Oxfordshire, England, which today has been converted into a railway museum and preservation engineering site.
context_section_description: There are three short lengths of running track, each with a station at both ends:
  Branchline: starts at a typical GWR wayside halt, named Didcot Halt, and runs north on the western edge of the site to a platform, named Burlescombe Station, at the transshipment shed. Dating from broad gauge days, the shed was used for transferring goods from broad to "narrow" (i.e. 4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in or 1,435 mm standard gauge) rolling stock and vice versa. It was moved to its present location carefully from its original site nearby.
  Broad gauge Line: the broad gauge line of 7 ft ¹⁄₄ in (2,140 mm) starts from the transshipment shed, and runs halfway back down the branchline. The 2005 replica GWR Firefly is housed within the shed when not running
  Mainline: starts from the Main Line Platform opposite the site entrance, using a pre-fabricated concrete station platform from Eynsham, and runs on the eastern-edge of the site to a newly built platform, named Oxford Road Station, near the transshipment shed. Long-term plans include the reconstruction of the Brunel-designed building from Heyford station on this platform.
caption: The broad-gauge transfer shed in its original location, with the provender store behind
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