. Railway Times . side of the tunnel which has a maximum depth ot over 50 ft . is in rock muchhii h required to be blasted before u i ould bt itn the remaining three miles to Aynho Junction, the mostinteresting works are two large viaducts of brick piers andarches, one having eighteen joft. spans, the other twenty-four \ 1 1 ond flying jum tion 1 onni 1 ts at \\-nho withthe Oxford and Birmingham line Altogether, there are u over budge-, and 7 under -bud and the remainder in brick. These serve public ro,Ko 22 occupation road bIn addition to the three stations already referred to, •the last-name
. Railway Times . side of the tunnel which has a maximum depth ot over 50 ft . is in rock muchhii h required to be blasted before u i ould bt itn the remaining three miles to Aynho Junction, the mostinteresting works are two large viaducts of brick piers andarches, one having eighteen joft. spans, the other twenty-four \ 1 1 ond flying jum tion 1 onni 1 ts at \\-nho withthe Oxford and Birmingham line Altogether, there are u over budge-, and 7 under -bud and the remainder in brick. These serve public ro,Ko 22 occupation road bIn addition to the three stations already referred to, •the last-named adjoining the exi 374 THE RAILWAY TIMES. [April 9, 1910. station of that name. Each of these is designed on the GreatWestern standard pattern, the general details of which areshown in the photograph of Ardley Station. The largest new facilities are likely to have on tram services. It cannotbe denied that there is the possibility of competition beingincreased—a danger which, in our view, needs to be close] v. Five Arch Bridge near LudgershaM. of the five is Bicester, where refreshment and dressing-rooms(for hunting people) have been provided. With the excep-tion of Blackthorn and Aynlio, provision lias been made forfour lines of railway betweenthe platforms, the two centreroads being intended forthrough trams. Loops for side-t racking goods trains have alsobeen provided at one or twopoints. Altogether, the workhas involved some 2,700,ceo1 ubi< yards of excavation,chiefly clay and rock, practi-cally all of winch has beendeposited in the permanent way. includingloops, totals 42 miles of singletrai k. in which are 108 switchesand 12S crossings. It is ofthe Great Western heavy stan-dard type, viz , 97Jlbs. bull-head rails. The work has <mt under the super-vision oi Mr. Walter Armstrong, the Great Western newworks engineer, whose representative on the ground was C. Si I It is not ye possibli to forecast accurately the effect the
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