Links and Acknowledgements
We are grateful for the kind support and interest shown whilst this site has been developed and on these pages we attempt to acknowledge all sources of information and images. Links to external websites are included where applicable, and links have also been included to other websites which may prove to be of further interest to our visitors.
Searching for something
Use the Search box in the secondary menu bar above to search for particular topics or items within our website. Depending on your browser settings, the Google search engine may present a few external references (adverts) at the top of the list, but scrolling down will lead you to links just within our website.
Sitemap
Our website has grown considerably over time and so there may be several levels of menu to look through when searching for a particular page but don't know where it lies in the menu structure. We have produced a sitemap which lists just about every page in an easy to read form as an alternative to using the Google search engine. Click or tap HERE to open the sitemap, or select the Site Map option from the drop down list on the right of the secondary menu bar above. Scroll down the sitemap list to see all the pages and click or tap on any link to go straight to the selected page. Alternatively, to simply close the list click or tap anywhere in the sitemap display, or on the × at the bottom.
'Hidden' internal links
There are a number of hidden pages (or 'Easter Eggs' as they are sometimes called) dotted around our website. These have been created this way to save cluttering up the menus with interesting things which may lie a little bit too far from the intended scope of the website, but which do have an albeit tenuous link with the station at Culham, its history, and its place in the general scheme of things. Links to these pages can be found as highlighted text here and there, but to make things a bit easier we also list them here so you can go straight to them.
As these special pages do not figure on the menus their menu bar will simply show one of two options depending on how a visitor got there. 'GO BACK' is fairly obvious as it will return you to the page you came from, that will be here if that is where you went from, or back to the page containing the hidden link if that is what you clicked on. A 'HOME' option will be shown when visitors have gone to the page directly, or as the result of a web search via 'GOOGLE' for example. That option will take them to the home, or very first, page of our website, enabling such visitors to explore and enjoy it further.
Abingdon
- Abingdon gasworks - Learn about the history of the gasworks in Abingdon. The later one had a siding from the station at Abingdon
- Abingdon maltings - Read a little about the development of the maltings situated at the Vineyard in Abingdon and its siding from the station at Abingdon
Local interest
- Appleford viaduct - An article detailing the replacement of the bridge taken from the October 1929 issue of the Great Western Railway Magazine
- British Hospitals' Air Pageant - An article promoting the forthcoming visit to Wallingford taken from The Berks and Oxon Advertiser dated Friday, May 5th 1933
- Hansard - OXFORD GAS ORDER 27 April 1949
- Local landing grounds - There were several landing grounds or airfields operating near Culham in the 1930s, some being a lot busier than you might realise
- Magazines - A bibliography of magazines known to contain articles which feature local stations, other than Culham, either in model or full size form
- Nuneham viaduct - An article detailing the replacement of the bridge taken from the October 1908 issue of the Great Western Railway Magazine
- Oxford tramways - A brief look at the history of Oxford's horse drawn trams
- Steventon station - An article taken from the June 1940 issue of the Great Western Railway Magazine giving an insight into the history of the station at Steventon
Wider interest
- BR Western Region timetable - Covering September 1963 to June 1964, this timetable gives an insight into railway services during a time of transition
- Caerphilly Castle jigsaw - Articles taken from some 1924 issues of the Great Western Railway Magazine launching the first jigsaw
- G.W.R. Jigsaw puzzles - Article taken from the December 1933 issue of the Great Western Railway Magazine giving a useful insight into ongoing additions and deletions from the range of GWR jigsaw puzzles and the popularity of the various titles
- Lost in Transit puzzle - The most rare of the GWR jigsaw puzzles. Not produced for sale, it carried a message and was given to staff for Christmas 1937
- Prestatyn holiday camp - The Great Western Railway had been planning to open a series of holiday camps, similar to the one run by Thomas Cook and the LMS in Prestatyn
- Proposed hotel at Snow Hill - In the April 1939 issue of the Great Western Railway Magazine the G.W.R. revealed plans to redevelop Snow Hill station in Birmingham and incorporate a new large hotel, but the scheme never got further than the drawing board
- Railway station bookstalls - A brief introduction to what once was a common feature on railway stations everywhere
- The story behind 'F.Moore' - Who was the mysterious artist who signed their railway paintings F.Moore ?
- Woking Homes - Originally started as a home for 'fatherless girls' for the benefit of L&SWR employees in Clapham
- Woodley (Reading) Aerodrome - This is where Major Allen, who had an airfield adjacent to the station at Culham, learnt to fly and, although now built over, it went on to be a major centre of aviation for many years
External Culham Ticket Office links
- YouTube - Watch videos of passing specials on our YouTube channel
- Jigsaw Planet - Try some jigsaws based on items in our collection, passing trains and the office itself on our JigsawPlanet channel
- Instagram - An occasional series recording some happenings in and around the station on our Instagram channel
Our website is preserved by the UK Web Archive which is a collaboration between all of the UK Legal Deposit Libraries whose aim is to collect, preserve, and give access to such material for current and future researchers.
Website sponsors
We are especially grateful to Entikera Limited whose registered office is at the Old Ticket Office and who trade as Mp Fine Art Printing
Click or tap link to open a new page and visit the Mp Fine Art Printing website for generously sponsoring this website, for acting as willing host for a selection of items from our memorabilia collection, and for welcoming visitors to view inside the building whenever their work allows.
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