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| HER Number | MWB6058 |
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| Record Type | Monument |
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| Name | THATCHAM STATION (GWR) |
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Summary
Railway station on outskirts of Thatcham, on Great Western Railway branch line
Other Statuses and Cross-References
- Berkshire SMR No. (pre 2000): 05053.16.100
- National Monuments Record No.: SU 56 NW 77
SU 528 663
Monument Type(s):
Full Description
Thatcham station was built for the opening of the Berks & Hants Railway in 1847 but no buildings survive from that date. New buildings were provided in 1893 and demolished in 1965. The modern brick buildings date from 1987 <4>.
West Berkshire Museum has photographs showing the station in 1919 and earlier <6>.
Sources and further reading
| <01> | Alan Baxter & Associates LLP. 2012. Great Western Main Line Route Structures Gazetteer. WBC Network. BHL 4947. [Unpublished document / SWB148447]
https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/gwml-gazetteer/ (Accessed 21/12/2015) |
| <02> | Historic England (previously English Heritage). ?-present. NMR Buildings Files on Historic England Archive. BF005792. [Index / SWB147173]
https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/photos/ (Accessed 21/04/2020) |
| <03> | Thatcham Vision & Thatcham Historical Society. 2009. Thatcham - an historic town in a changing world. online. p35. [Monograph / SWB147814] |
| <04> | Simmonds, P. 2014. A history of the Berks and Hants line Reading to Westbury. [Monograph / SWB148853] |
| <05> | Page and Ditchfield (eds). 1923. Victoria County History (VCH) Berks III 1923. Vol 3. p311. [Monograph / SWB10005]
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/berks/vol3 (Accessed 08/03/2022) |
| <06> | Museum Curator. Newbury Museum Accession Records (West Berkshire Museum since 1998). 2022 WBC Network. NEBYM:1983.145.3; 2013.26.27-29. [Unpublished document / SWB14452] |
Related Monuments
| MWB20202 | Site of Thatcham goods shed (Monument) |
| MWB20186 | Site of Thatcham signal box (Monument) |
| MWB20184 | Thatcham station footbridge (Monument) |
| MWB6057 | MIDGHAM STATION TO THATCHAM STATION RAILWAY LINE (Monument) |
Associated Excavations and Fieldwork
| EWB1265 | History and Significance of the Great Western Main Line |
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