Image 165107, GW 11.18 Oxford-Oxford Up Carriage Sidings ECS (5L24) & Rewley Road swingbridge
165107, GW 11.18 Oxford-Oxford Up Carriage Sidings ECS (5L24) & Rewley Road swingbridge
165107, GW 11.18 Oxford-Oxford Up Carriage Sidings ECS (5L24) & Rewley Road swingbridge 165107 has run round and is returning to Oxford station as the 5L24 ECS ready to work back to Didcot Parkway. In the foreground is Rewley Road swing bridge, a well known feature here next to the Sheepwash Channel, a tributary to the Oxford Canal. Robert Stephenson designed and constructed the swing bridge in 1850. It was re-built again twice, lastly when steel girders were included. The bridge is now a scheduled structure and there have been numerous, but so-far unsuccessful, bids to restore it. Keywords: 165107 ECS 5L24 Rewley Road swingbridge
165107, GW 11.18 Oxford-Oxford Up Carriage Sidings ECS (5L24) & Rewley Road swingbridge 165107 has run round and is returning to Oxford station as the 5L24 ECS ready to work back to Didcot Parkway. In the foreground is Rewley Road swing bridge, a well known feature here next to the Sheepwash Channel, a tributary to the Oxford Canal. Robert Stephenson designed and constructed the swing bridge in 1850. It was re-built again twice, lastly when steel girders were included. The bridge is now a scheduled structure and there have been numerous, but so-far unsuccessful, bids to restore it. Keywords: 165107 ECS 5L24 Rewley Road swingbridge


165107 has run round and is returning to Oxford station

as the 5L24 ECS ready to work back to Didcot Parkway. In the foreground is Rewley Road swing bridge, a well known feature here next to the Sheepwash Channel, a tributary to the Oxford Canal. Robert Stephenson designed and constructed the swing bridge in 1850. It was re-built again twice, lastly when steel girders were included. The bridge is now a scheduled structure and there have been numerous, but so-far unsuccessful, bids to restore it.