The GCR constructed a bridge to allow the now numbered

A4421 at Newton Purcell to pass under their new London to the north railway in the last decade of the twentieth century. The brickwork has stood all that time but with the arrival of the controversial HS2 scheme, the contractors have had to knock it about in order to install a temporary bridge permitting their construction plant to pass above the busy road. Interestingly, the route of HS2 is following that of the GCR to the letter at this location as it does a number of other paces on its route from London; the Edwardian entrepreneurs got this railway absolutely right so it's such a shame that British Railways did not have the necessary vision to see its future worth when it as closed in the 1960s probably meaning HS2 would not be needed!