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There are emergency crossovers at Uffington for the facilitation of Reversible Working (east to Wantage Road, west to Bourton). There was a station at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uffington_railway_station Uffington]] between 1840 and 1964, closed before the advent of Swindon MAS.
 
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==Overview==
 
There are emergency crossovers at Uffington for the facilitation of Reversible Working (east to Wantage Road, west to Bourton).
 
==Station==
 
There was a station at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uffington_railway_station Uffington]] between 1840 and 1964, closed before the advent of Swindon MAS.
 
==Interlocking==
 
One of Swindon's interlockings is situated at Uffington - a WR E10k freewired relay interlocking - commissioned on 30th May 1965<ref name="BPSR">British Power Signalling Register (http://www.bpsr.org.uk)</ref> (before the opening of the Panel). It was originally controlled by Uffington Signal Box, recontrolled to Swindon Panel when it opened on 3rd March 1968<ref name="BPSR" />.
 
The next interlocking to the east was Wantage Road until [[Swindon B]] opened, when it became SWDN02 on 13 March 1993<ref name="BPSR" />.
 
==References==
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Revision as of 11:56, 6 June 2014

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Overview

There are emergency crossovers at Uffington for the facilitation of Reversible Working (east to Wantage Road, west to Bourton).

Station

There was a station at [Uffington] between 1840 and 1964, closed before the advent of Swindon MAS.

Interlocking

One of Swindon's interlockings is situated at Uffington - a WR E10k freewired relay interlocking - commissioned on 30th May 1965[1] (before the opening of the Panel). It was originally controlled by Uffington Signal Box, recontrolled to Swindon Panel when it opened on 3rd March 1968[1].

The next interlocking to the east was Wantage Road until Swindon B opened, when it became SWDN02 on 13 March 1993[1].

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 British Power Signalling Register (http://www.bpsr.org.uk)