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Yarnton[edit]

Was the station at Yarnton officially called "Yarnton Junction"? --mervyn (talk) 10:29, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. Photos in four books show all station nameboards as having two lines of lettering: "Yarnton Junction" above "For the Fairford Line"; maps show "Yarnton Junction":

Jenkins, S.C.; Quayle, H.L. (1976). The Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway. The Oakwood Library of Railway History (1st ed.). Blandford: Oakwood Press.
Jenkins, Stanley C. (1985) [1975]. The Fairford Branch - The Witney & East Gloucestershire Railway". Locomotion Papers (2nd ed.). Headington: Oakwood Press. pp. 73–80. ISBN 0 85361 316 8.
Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith; Richard, Lingard (1988). "Yarnton". Branch Line to Fairford. Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN 0-906520-52-5. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2003). "Yarnton". Oxford to Moreton-in-Marsh. Western Main Lines. Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN 1 904474 15 2. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

In none of these is it explicitly stated that the station was originally named simply "Yarnton" and later renamed; but all seem to use plain "Yarnton" as a convenient shorthand. However, The Railway Clearing House Handbook of Railway Stations 1904 (Reprint ed.). Newton Abbot: David & Charles. 1970 [1904]. p. 597. ISBN 0 7153 5120 6. shows it as plain "Yarnton", with "Yarnton Junction" as the junction between the GWR & LNWR, situated between Yarnton and Verney Junction. Redrose64 (talk) 20:56, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Article title[edit]

The title "Oxford, Witney and Fairford Railway" is dubious. That was apparently the title of an article in The Railway Magazine, March 1931 (according to the "Further Reading" section in Jenkins (above section) - but that issue is absent from my personal collection). The only official names for the railway itself that I have come across are "Witney Railway" and "East Gloucestershire Railway" prior to the absorption by the GWR, and "Witney and East Gloucestershire Branch" afterward. The title "Witney and East Gloucestershire Railway" is used on the cover and title page of Jenkins, both 1975 and 1985 editions, but (as far as I can see) not in the text itself.

Suggest split into two articles, one for the Witney Rly and the other for the EGR. Redrose64 (talk) 20:56, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]