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The leader of South Oxfordshire District Council has said the railway is the 'heart and soul of Didcot' Didcot is set to put its name forward to become the home of a new national body for the ...
A man was found dead near to a disused railway line in Upton today. Police were called to the scene, near Didcot, at 6.48am and are treating the death as unexplained. Police spokesman Rebecca ...
POLICE are searching a rural area between Didcot and the village of Upton including a disused railway line as they continue to hunt for missing teenager Jayden Parkinson. Thames Valley Police ...
Didcot Parkway railway station in Oxfordshire is set to get a multi-million pound revamp. Oxfordshire County Council has agreed to fund most of the £5.7m project. South Oxfordshire District ...
A fundraising campaign is being set up to save a failing water tower at a railway museum. The water tower and coaling stage have kept steam locomotives running at Didcot Railway Centre since 1932 ...
The No 18000 spent most of its working life in the Western region Record producer and railway enthusiast Pete Waterman is to donate a train to the Didcot Railway Centre. The prototype gas turbine ...
The teenager, who had recently moved to Oxford, was last seen leaving Didcot railway station at 4.27pm ... a suitcase just outside the village of Upton, at about 2am on Monday, 9 December.
An iconic steam engine named Tornado has been drawing in the crowds at Didcot Railway Centre in Oxfordshire. The brand new locomotive is modelled on the original Class A1s which were scrapped half ...
The spokesman added: "Whilst the action in the original story takes place in a Northern town we have used poetic licence and imagined it to be Upton Upon Severn which indeed had its own railway ...