Didcot Railway Centre
Didcot Railway Centre is a railway museum and preservation engineering site in Didcot, Oxfordshire, England. The site was formerly a Great Western Railway engine shed and locomotive stabling point.Photo: William M. Connolley, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Didcot Parkway railway station and Engine Shed Great Western Railway Heritage Centre.
Didcot Parkway railway station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Didcot Parkway is a railway station serving Didcot, a town in Oxfordshire, England. The station was opened as Didcot on 12 June 1844 and was renamed Didcot Parkway on 29 July 1985 by British Rail, to reflect its role as a park and ride railhead. Didcot Parkway railway station is situated 1,300 feet south of Didcot Railway Centre.
Engine Shed Great Western Railway Heritage Centre
Industrial building
Photo: Forester2009, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Engine Shed Great Western Railway Heritage Centre is an industrial building, which is situated 430 feet south of Didcot Railway Centre.
Cineworld Cinema Didcot
Movie theater
Photo: Bill Nicholls, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cineworld Cinema Didcot is a movie theater, which is situated 2,800 feet south of Didcot Railway Centre.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Appleford-on-Thames and Coscote.
Appleford-on-Thames
Village
Photo: Colin Bates, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Appleford-on-Thames is a village and civil parish on the south bank of the River Thames about 2 miles north of Didcot, in the Vale of White Horse district, in Oxfordshire. Appleford-on-Thames is situated 1½ miles north of Didcot Railway Centre.
Coscote
Hamlet
Photo: Colin Bates, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Coscote is a hamlet in the civil parish of East Hagbourne, in the Berkshire Downs 1 mile south of Didcot. The hamlet was also previously referred to as Cokelscote. Coscote is situated 1½ miles south of Didcot Railway Centre.
Fulscot
Hamlet
Photo: Bill Nicholls, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fulscot is a hamlet in South Moreton civil parish in South Oxfordshire, about 0.5 miles west of the village. In 1974 it was transferred from Berkshire. Fulscot is situated 2 miles southeast of Didcot Railway Centre.
Didcot Railway Centre
- Type: Museum
- Description: railway museum in Didcot, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
- Categories: railway museum, independent museum, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Didcot, South Oxfordshire District, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.61472° or 51° 36′ 53″ northLongitude
-1.24404° or 1° 14′ 39″ westElevation
184 feet (56 metres)Open location code
9C3WJQ74+V9OpenStreetMap ID
way 511466664OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museum
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Spanish—“Didcot Railway Centre” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “迪德科特车厂”
- Chinese: “迪德科特铁路中心”
- Dutch: “Didcot Railway Centre”
- French: “DIDCOT RAILWAY CENTER”
- French: “Didcot Railway Centre”
- German: “Didcot Railway Centre”
- Japanese: “ディドコット・レールウェイ・センター”
- Japanese: “ディドコット鉄道センター”
- Japanese: “ディドコット鉄道博物館”
- Japanese: “鉄道博物館”
- Spanish: “Centro del Ferrocarril de Didcot”
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