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The Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway is a former railway in the Cotswold Hills in Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, England. ==Origins and development== The railway was built and opened in stages.〔Brown, Parkhouse & Jenkins 2004〕 The Chipping Norton Railway opened in 1855, linking the town of Chipping Norton with the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway at Kingham.〔(Disused Railways website )〕 The Bourton-on-the-Water Railway between Kingham and Bourton-on-the-Water opened in 1862. By 1881〔(dukedog-GWR family tree ) from dukedog.co.uk〕 two further sections of railway had been completed: one between Chipping Norton and King's Sutton and the other between Bourton-on-the-Water and Cheltenham.〔Oakley, 2003, page 9〕 Together these four sections of railway formed a complete line between Cheltenham and King's Sutton. The BCDR company did not operate services on the line: it contracted the Great Western Railway to do so in return for a share of the receipts. In 1891 the Midland and South Western Junction Railway built a junction with the BCDR at Andoversford. The M&SWJR paid for running rights on the BCDR between Andoversford and Cheltenham. The BCDR remained a separate company until the GWR absorbed it in 1897.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Railway Companies and Contractors )〕 All services along the BCDR used to have to change directions at Kingham until 1906, when the GWR built a loop over the OW&W that bypassed the station.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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