Part 2 Exploring the Banbury junction branch line to Culworth Junction.

[@peterstudley1804]

Hi Neil, good to see you and Austin, that 2.17 older photo you added to the video highlights perfectly how much tree growth has taken place even since the old image was taken, I'd say late 1970s early 1980s as i believe the car is a first generation BMW 5 series. Good work as always thank you 😊.

[@stuarthall6631]

The overbridge @ 12:08 was, until fairly recently, a beautiful brick arch. Actually, I am surprised to see that this has now been demolished.

[@GodfreyTempleton]

How depressing. Looking on google the base outline of Culworth 'box is still discernable.

[@swipewrite]

Nice one Neil. I wanted to walk down the branch towards Banbury the last time I visited the junction site but stopped when seeing the well-kept entrance into the farm house and considered it too private to go there. It was always interesting passing this point and the Junction signal box when firing over the route in it's closing couple of years.

[@edfranklin9137]

Spent many hours playing on these steps as a kid growing up in Chacombe, Ralph Watts and Reg Pratt from the George and Dragan pub were signal men there, we also would put old pennies on the line and get them squashed went the train went over them. Happy days.

[@NWP_EXPLORING]

Wow great memories 😊

[@tobycooper3420]

I was at the bottom of Culworth hill near the bridge going up into the village, we were harvesting in the field when I saw my last steam engine on British Rail running light to Banbury crossing the bridge. It must have been around August 1966 I was12yo. I lived in the village of Weston and if you biked up to Lois Weedon you could see 2 miles across the fields and watch the coal trains on the massive Sulgrave embankment. Such a shame that a great railway was so brutally vandalised.

[@edfranklin9137]

Have tried to add two photos to my comments but don’t seem able to do it.

[@NWP_EXPLORING]

You can email them to me if that works? [e-mail]