Links and Acknowledgements


Image sources

Here we list most of the sources for the images used within our website. Even if not noted here, the appropriate source and copyright information is noted, when known, below each image where it appears in the website. Where not otherwise noted images are the original work of the author with all rights being retained.

Archives visited

We are grateful to the following archives who generously allowed us to visit and photograph items in their collections and to reproduce those images on our website:

Brunel Institute a collaboration of the SS Great Britain Trust and the University of Bristol - Brunel letter books and sketch books
Parliamentary Archives - Deposited plans for the Oxford and Didcot Railway (1837-1844)
Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre - Agreements of 1888 and 1908 between GWR and Nuneham House

Publishers

We also acknowledge the generous assistance of:

British Railway Modelling for the editor's kind permission for the use of images from the magazine
Crécy Publishing Limited whose books are noted within the website
Dorchester News for their kind permission to reproduce the article about Culham Station's 175th anniversary
Lightmoor Press and Ian Pope for providing background information and photographs relating to coal merchants at Culham
Model Rail for the editor's kind permission for the use of images from the magazine
Pendragon Publishing for their kind permission to reproduce the article from BackTrack magazine about Thomas Edmondson
Railway Modeller magazine for the editor's kind permission to reproduce the 175th anniversary article about Culham Station and for the use of images from the magazine

Picture libraries and archives

We have been fortunate in that a number of picture libraries and archives have kindly allowed the use of images from their collections:

A.J.Jackson Collection at Brooklands Museum
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Aviation Ancestry, historic British Aviation advertisements archive
British Film Institute BFI national archive
Britain from Above Aerofilms Collection
British Pathé YouTube channel
Buxton Museum, Derbyshire County Council, Buxton Museum and Art Gallery (Board collection)
Colour-Rail for their kind permission to reproduce photographs from their catalogue
Francis Frith collection
Friends of Abingdon Civic Society
Getty Images
Graces guide to British Industrial History
Great Western Trust photographic archive, courtesy of Laurence Waters (Photograph archivist)
Historic England Archive
Historical Model Railway Society (HMRS) for their kind permission to reproduce photographs from their archives
Imperial War Museum (IWM) photographic archive
Lens of Sutton Collection, courtesy of Stanley C.Jenkins
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Reading Room
Mike Boakes for his kind permission to reproduce the photograph of Abingdon Maltings siding. Contact him by email for details of this, and other images in his collection.
Museum of Wales
National Portrait Gallery, London
Network Rail Corporate Archive
Pendon Museum
PictureOxon, the picture library of Oxfordshire County Council and the Oxfordshire History Centre
Photosfromthefifties, the picture library of the Railway Enthusiasts' Club
Rowley Collection, with the kind permission of the Ellwood and Rowley families, and North Yorkshire County Council, Skipton Library
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales via their online catalogue Colfein
Royal Naval Photographers Association archive, courtesy of the RNPA Historian
Science and Society Picture Library, courtesy of the National Railway Museum
The National Archives

Private collections

Our grateful thanks goes to those who have kindly given permission for us to use photographs or videos from their personal collections, who include amongst others who may be noted elsewhere:

David Armitage, Des Blenkinsopp, David Bowman, John Bramley-Brown, Ben Brooksbank, David Clark, Stephen Clinch, Mark Crombie, Michael Culham, Graham Gegg, Derek Grant, Stanley C.Jenkins, Stephanie Jenkins, Chris Jennings, Chris Leigh, Martin Loach, Martin Loader, Philip Marsh, Mike Roach, Chris Suitters, Jeremy Tilston, Laurence Waters, Peter White, Roger Winnen, Liz Woolley

Other sources

Additional material has been kindly made available from other sources, who include amongst others who may be noted elsewhere:

Photograph of Abingdon Corporation 1877-1878, painted by Henry Jamyn Brookes, courtesy of Abingdon-on-Thames Town Council

Maker's official photograph of Dunston Bros., Radley private owner's wagon, courtesy of Radley History Club
Maker's official photograph of W.S.Clarke, Faringdon private owner's wagon, courtesy of John Speller

Plan of Culham airfield circa 1945, courtesy of Ove Arup & Partners Ltd
Aerial photograph of fields opposite Fullamoor Farm circa 1930, courtesy of Bachport and Jaqi Mason
Culham airfield circa 1950, courtesy of CCFE/UKAEA
Miles CopyCat advert from 1947, courtesy of Grace's Guide to British Industrial History
Still from the 1935 film 'Things to Come' showing G-ABVS, courtesy of Nick Cooper
Photographs of the fire at Reading Aerodrome, courtesy of Reading Museum (Reading Borough Council)
Berkshire Aviation staff at Witney, and British Hospitals' Air Pageant programme cover, courtesy of The Bampton Archive
Details from the 'AA Register of Landing Grounds', where noted, courtesy of Nick Chittenden
AA plan of Wallingford landing ground, courtesy of UK Airfield Guide

Fête poster for Beckett Park from 1874, courtesy of Shrivenham Heritage Society

Images and information relating to Sutton Bridge, courtesy of Sutton Courtenay Local History Society
Images and information relating to local Thames bridges, courtesy of Where Thames Smooth Waters Glide

Photograph of Bradford-on-Avon Station, courtesy of Bradford on Avon Museum
Image of postcard showing Charfield Station, courtesy of Charfield Community website
Photographs of Wootton Bassett Station, courtesy of Wootton Bassett Town Hall Museum

Commemorative cover for the inaugural passenger run of the APT, courtesy of Rob Latham
Undated postcard Chad Valley Works (the local centre of industry), unknown publisher, courtesy of WoolworthsMuseum.co.uk
Photographs of the 'Lost in Transit' jigsaw puzzle and box, courtesy of David Shearer and The Jigasaurus

Images of the four Oxford Gasworks locomotives, courtesy of Colin Judge. From his book The Railway, Locomotives & Company History 1818-1960 of the Oxford Gas Light & Coke Company, published in 2023 by the Industrial Railway Society (ISBN 9781 912995 11 0), with the author's kind permission.