eaw045805 ENGLAND (1952). The River Evenlode, the Cotswold Line (Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway line) and surrounding countryside, Adlestrop, from the south-east, 1952. This image was marked by Aerofilms Ltd for photo editing.

Fosse Way A429, the Roman Road from Exeter to Lincoln

British Railways Western region main line between Oxford ( from Wolvercote Junction) to Worcester. Formerly Great Western, but originally The Oxford Worcester and Wolverhampton. Fondly(!) known as The Old Worse and Worse. A statement on the quality of service given. Today I believe this is now known as the Cotswold Line. The track was singled in the sixties, but in recent years has once again been doubled.

Adlestrop Signal Box. The station is out of sight to the bottom left. It was here that Edward Thomas' train made an unscheduled stop on 24 June 1914 inspiring him to write a poem in 1917. Yes, I remember Adlestrop -- The name, because one afternoon Of heat the express-train drew up there Unwontedly. It was late June. The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat. No one left and no one came On the bare platform. What I saw Was Adlestrop -- only the name And willows, willow-herb, and grass, And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry, No whit less still and lonely fair Than the high cloudlets in the sky. And for that minute a blackbird sang Close by, and round him, mistier, Farther and farther, all the birds Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire. Another literary associations with Adlestrop was the fact that novelist Jane Austen visited the village three Times between 1794 and 1806 and it is said to have inspired her novel Mansfield Park.