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Inscriptions: Rewley Road Station


Rewley Road Station

The above plaque is set into the pavement in Frideswide Square, outside the Saïd Business School This was built on the site of the former London, Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS) station, which operated separately from the Great Western Railway (GWR) station to the west. The text reads:

[Around the four sides, starting on the right]:

A STATION WAS ERECTED ON THIS SITE IN 1851 BY THE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE RAILWAY TO COINCIDE WITH THE / GREAT EXHIBITION OF 1851, USING THE
SAME CAST IRON COMPONENTS / THIS STATION WAS DISMANTLED AND
RE-ERECTED AT QUAINTON ROAD STATION, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE BY THE /
QUAINTON RAILWAY SOCIETY AS A WORKING MUSEUM IN DECEMBER 2000

1851–1879
Buckinghamshire Railway
with London and North
Western Railway Company

      Engraving      
of station
[shown below]

1879–1922
London and North
Western Railway Company

Engraving of Rewley Road Station

1922–1948
London Midland
Railway Company

1851–2000

1948–1969
British Railways

Below: Rewley Road Station at its new home in Quainton

Rewley Road Station at Quainton

Wikipedia: Oxford Rewley Road Railway Station

© Stephanie Jenkins

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Last updated: 5 September, 2011