Appleford - station, services, facilities, signalling and bridge (merged posts)

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[JayMac]

Depends what's in the PSR^▸ (Permanent Speed Restriction). They can't just remive anything on that...

What's a Permanent Speed Restriction got to do with the price of fish?

[IndustryInsider]

Depends what's in the PSR^▸ (Permanent Speed Restriction). They can't just remive anything on that...

Realtime trains has no services listed at Appleford for the first couple of Sundays after the timetable change.  Buses would show on there as long as they've been entered into the Integrated Train Planning System.  Also, no journey is found on the NRE^▸ (National Rail Enquiries) website.  I think the further erosion of Appleford's service is continuing with the next timetable change.

[Oxonhutch]

Makes a change from the heyday of its service interval that it achieved in January this year: a level I was compelled to report to the Railway Magazine ...

Our winter storms appear to have a silver lining for some communities.  Appleford, a sleepy village on the Great Western Oxford-Didcot line today (8/1/14) was served by 72 stopping services on the flood shuttle between the two towns.  I doubt that Appleford, that normally receives an offering of only ten stopping trains each way per day, has ever seen this level of service. Even in its earlier days, the GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) delegated its ticket sales on this quiet station to the local Post Office!

[Lee]

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/19043360.council-calls-greener-flyover-bridge-link-didcot/

A PARISH council wants to see a new railway bridge developed in an ‘environmentally-sensitive and community enhancing way’.

Appleford Parish Council wants to see changes to a new road which would link Didcot with the Culham Science Centre – and in particular the councillors do not want the bridge to ruin the village’s peace.

Oxfordshire County Council approved plans to build a relief road from Didcot to Clifton Hampden – and a fly-over bridge over private railway sidings at Appleford-on-Thames – in July 2020.

[Oxonhutch]

Looking at the proposed route and its relation to the village itself, I struggle to see where the objections come from. The new road will remove through traffic from Appleford itself including a narrow railway overbridge. The route runs mainly though an area of old land fill of old gravel pits. It will form a very convenient route from Didcot to Abingdon which is somewhat tortuous at present passing through several local villages on the various ways.

[didcotdean]

A road from the east/north of Didcot and Abingdon to Oxford has had a remarkably long gestation period as it was first considered by Berkshire County Council before the Second World War. For local purposes it was preferred over a route to the west which was what was eventually built through the 1970s as the A34.

Preferring a route more to the west might only at some stage encourage infill development of some kind in the future so they need to be careful what they wish for. Alternative routings passing east of Appleford were ruled out already on environmental grounds.

They might want to be more concerned about future services from Appleford station as Oxfordshire / Didcot Garden Town plans prioritise Culham. Appleford connections would be via the nebulous Garden Line.