Services
Most services on the line are currently hauled by diesel locomotives, and run on occasional weekends and bank holidays. The railway's web site has details on operating days.
The original branch platform at Cholsey station is still available to the preserved railway, and trains connect here with First Great Western stopping services on the Great Western Main Line between Reading and Didcot stations.
However the original Wallingford railway station and the last segment of the line have long been built on, and the line now terminates at a makeshift station at the line's headquarters adjacent to the site of the maltings that kept the line alive into the preservation era. The maltings have recently been demolished and replaced by housing, releasing some extra land to the railway. There are plans to build a replica GWR style station on this land.
Read more about this topic: Cholsey And Wallingford Railway
Famous quotes containing the word services:
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—Elizabeth M. Gilmer (1861–1951)
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—Bernice Weissbourd (20th century)
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—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)