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HER Number	MWB6046
Record Type	Monument
Name	Pangbourne Station to Oxfordshire Railway Line

Grid Reference	SU 617 786
Map Sheet	SU67NW
Parish	Basildon, West Berkshire
	Pangbourne, West Berkshire
Map:	Show location on Streetmap

Summary

Section of Great Western railway line from Reading to Oxford

Other Statuses and Cross-References

Berkshire SMR No. (pre 2000): 05053.11.000
National Monuments Record No.: LINEAR 900 (part of)

Monument Type(s):

RAILWAY (Victorian to Late 19th century - 1840 AD to 1900 AD)

Full Description

The length of the Great Western Railway from Paddington to Bath and Bristol that ran across Berkshire was open by 1840. In c 1892 this section of the mainline was quadrupled to four tracks <4>.

Sources and further reading

<01>	Fletcher, W. c1840. Tour Round Reading. Google book. p67. [Unpublished document / SWB148846] https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=EeQGAAAAQAAJ (Accessed 06/02/2019)
<02>	Greenaway, D. 2007. Around the Valley of the Pang. p147. [Monograph / SWB147222]
<03>	Greenaway, D and Dunlop, L. 2011. Around the Three Valleys. p198. [Monograph / SWB148275]
<04>	Alan Baxter & Associates LLP. 2012. Great Western Main Line Route Structures Gazetteer. WBC Network. MLN1 4143. [Unpublished document / SWB148447] https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/gwml-gazetteer/ (Accessed 21/12/2015)
<05>	1839. Basildon Tithe map. [Map / SWB150029] http://ww2.berkshirenclosure.org.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=DD1%2f14%2f1 (Accessed 10/02/2022)
<06>	1841. Pangbourne Tithe Map. Marked 'Great Western Railway'. [Map / SWB147982] http://ww2.berkshirenclosure.org.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=DD1%2f91%2f1 (Accessed 10/02/2022)

Related Monuments

MWB6047	Basildon Bridge or Gatehampton Viaduct (Monument)
MWB20302	Church Lane overbridge, Lower Basildon (Monument)
MWB6045	Pangbourne Station (GWR) (Monument)
MWB20301	Shooters Hill overbridge, Lower Basildon (Monument)
MWB23165	Site of first Pangbourne signal box (Monument)
MWB20290	Site of second Pangbourne signal box (Monument)
MWB20300	Track underbridge west of Pangbourne (Monument)
MWB6024	GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY - General record within West Berkshire (Monument)

Associated Excavations and Fieldwork

EWB1265

History and Significance of the Great Western Main Line

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