Talk:Swindon railway station

message: "Swindon Town Centre Regeneration
There are plans to construct a second station entrance (and a multi-story carpark) on the North side of the railway line. The current pedestrian subway will be extended through to the North. Along with the new entrance, infrastructure will be put in place to accommodate taxis and buses on the northern side." 
This has been removed due to the plans being mothballed SkippyUK 09:42, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Swindon Town Center Regeneration 

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message: Is there really a direct (but disused) line between Swindon and Oxford, or does this news item Three new east-west rail arcs explored for EEH geography  actually just mean a service between them via Didcot? --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 07:53, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Via Didcot, see the signalling map, there is no other route. Nanonic (talk) 09:17, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes and no. The current route is via Didcot the place but not  - you turn north at Foxhall Junction just west of Didcot Parkway. As far as I know there has never been a more direct route, and my 1947 rail atlas doesn't show anything except via Cirencester. -mattbuck (Talk) 10:44, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you both. I really didn't think so but the wording of the item caused me wonder if I had missed a secret military branch line or something. I suppose if the objective is to abate the ever-increasing traffic on the A420, people might be persuaded by a Swindon  Oxford commuter service where they could get on the train, go back to sleep, wake me up when we get to Oxford (rather than have to stand on the Paddington train as far as Didcot and then wait on a wet and windy platform for a Dicot  Oxford service to turn up). Theoretically speaking of course, I have never tried it. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 16:48, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

text: Perhaps the reference to a 'little used route' is just to that east-bound to north-bound chord at Foxhall Junction? --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 16:53, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: This "chord" (which is never described as such) is formally known as Didcot West Curve, and is 32 chains long, from Foxhall Junction (the zero point, itself 53 miles 55 chains from Paddington zero) to Didcot West Curve Junction, which is itself at 53 miles 51 chains along the Didcot-Chester line from Padd. Up is towards Swindon; down is towards Oxford. Far from being "little used", it carries a significant number of freight trains. There are infrequent passenger trains, I think one per week late evening. There are also ECS workings: once a day a train runs from Oxford sidings non-stop to Didcot station, where it reverses back to Foxhall Junction, and then runs forward to Oxford sidings. This and the once-a-week passenger working exist to keep drivers familiar with the route, because when there is engineering work affecting platforms 3/4/5 at Didcot, and all trains have to use platforms 1/2, there is no direct access to the Chester line and so a reversal at either Foxhall Junction or Didcot East Junction is necessary. I have experienced both, and observed the confusion of fellow passengers. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 20:52, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Direct route to Oxford? 

message: I thought the consensus at WP:WikiProject UK Railways is that we don't have a station master section unless it is for a notable person.  (See discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK Railways/Archive 47#Lists of station masters.) Is there any reason not to delete the Station master section from this article? 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 11:05, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: This is indeed another example of the lists that were the subject of that April 2020 discussion. There are others, e.g. at Melksham railway station. Most editors in that discussion expressed disapproval, though there was no concluding decision. I support removal of this section, but if that is done the same removal should be done everywhere. -- Wire723 (talk) 19:06, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I have removed them from several Yorkshire railway station articles (,  etc) as per a second discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK Railways/Archive 53#Stationmasters. At Northallerton I blanked the section first, and then removed it six weeks later as per WP:BOLD. Most of these lists are incomplete, and those I have removed do not have any wikinotable people within them. Regards. The joy of all things (talk) 19:22, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Station masters?