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This gave Wokingham a direct route to London Waterloo. In 1933 the Southern Railway opened the current signal box. It controls part of the North Downs Line, part of the Waterloo route, and the level crossing. On 1 January 1939 the SR extended its Waterloo – Virginia Water electric service to Wokingham and Reading. [6]
On Tuesday 27 June 1871 1 person was killed on a foot crossing adjacent to Twickenham station when they were struck by a train. [ 12 ] On Thursday 14 August 1884 2 people were injured when a special train from Windsor ran into the back of an empty train due to excessive speed and passing a signal at danger.
Share capital was to be £300,000, for a double track line 18 miles long from Staines to Wokingham, with a branch five miles long through Chobham to Woking. At Wokingham the line would connect to the Reading, Guildford and Reigate Railway; running powers would get trains to Reading. [1] The SW&WJR opened from Staines to Ascot on 4 June 1856.
During the closure, Network Rail will complete a range of other work, including modernising the signalling in the area and the renewal of four level crossings.
Track work taking place over Portslade level crossing on Boundary Road will close it for two days
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This is a route-map template for the Waterloo–Reading line, a UK railway.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
Gated level crossings were mandatory from 1839, but initial rules were for the gates to be ordinarily kept closed across the highway. [6] The original form of road level crossing on British railways dates from 1842 onwards, [6] [7] it consisted of two or four wooden gates (one or two on each side of the railway). When open to road traffic, the ...