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Didcot Parkway
[Peter Todd 07/10/2016]" longdesc="" class="image147">
All photographs of this location in date order.
![GBRf 66736 <I>'Wolverhampton Wanderers'</I> passing west through Didcot on 22 January 2015. The freight, which would appear to be a new flow, is about to turn north towards Oxford.<br><br>[Peter Todd //]](/images/50000/50160.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![A <I>Hymek</I> stands at Didcot in February 1985.<br><br>[Peter Todd 17/02/1985]](/images/22000/22527.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![GBRf 66713 on the eastern side of Didcot on 11 March.<br><br>[Peter Todd 11/03/2008]](/images/18000/18411.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![EWS 60063 stands at Didcot on 13 May 2008.<br><br>[Peter Todd 13/05/2008]](/images/19000/19044.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![EWS 66074 between containers at Didcot on 12 August 2008.<br><br>[Peter Todd 12/08/2008]](/images/20000/20222.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![An HST runs through Didcot on 12 August 2008<br><br>[Peter Todd 12/08/2008]](/images/20000/20234.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![A Cross Country Voyager speeds through Didcot on 12 August.<br><br>[Peter Todd 12/08/2008]](/images/20000/20241.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![EWS 66041 + 66087 double head a continuous welded rail train through Didcot on 13 May before turning north towards Oxford.<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 13/05/2009]](/images/23000/23659.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![A pair of sequentially numbered class 165 DMUs standing at Didcot on 19 August 2009.<br><br>[Peter Todd 18/08/2009]](/images/25000/25099.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![166201 eastbound for Paddington on 18 August, taken from a farmer's overbridge to the east of Didcot. A very good spot for a lot of train movements, especially if you like a zillion DMUs and HSTs!<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 18/08/2009]](/images/25000/25109.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![66077 <I>Benjamin Gimbert GC</I> passing 66168 at Didcot on 18 August<br><br>[Peter Todd 18/08/2009]](/images/25000/25118.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Freightliner 66572 overtakes EWS 66168 alongside Didcot Parkway station on 18 August 2009 as it turns north with a freight on the avoiding line heading towards Oxford.<br><br>[Peter Todd 18/08/2009]](/images/25000/25177.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![EWS liveried 66098 & 66131 at Didcot on 21 November 2009.<br><br>[Peter Todd 21/11/2009]](/images/26000/26439.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Front ends, Didcot, April 2010.<br><br>[Peter Todd /04/2010]](/images/28000/28654.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Scene at Didcot on 8 April 2010 as a Paddington bound First Great Western 165 DMU coming off the Oxford line passes 66024 on a freight.<br><br>[Peter Todd 08/04/2010]](/images/28000/28435.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![165102 calls at Didcot on 8 April 2010 on a Paddington - Oxford working. New exhaust system?... maybe not..<br><br>[Peter Todd 08/04/2010]](/images/28000/28458.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![A scene of considerable activity at Didcot station on Saturday 30 October 2010. From left to right there are FGW Turbostars at platforms 5 and 4; a Cross Country service has just departed east from platform 3 towards Reading with a service to Bournemouth, while a FGW HST is arriving from the west at platform 2. The increased activity is due to closure of the line towards Oxford for engineering work and the need for rail replacement buses, two of which can be seen in the car park on the right.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 30/10/2010]](/images/31000/31585.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![A pair of EWS Class 66s sit in the sidings next to Didcot station on 30 October 2010 waiting for their next working. [Ref query 21 October 2017]<br><br>[John McIntyre 30/10/2010]](/images/61000/61294.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![DBS 66041 running round its coal train alongside Didcot power station on 5 January following arrival from Avonmouth.<br><br>[Peter Todd 05/01/2011]](/images/37000/37119.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![DBS 60040 <I>The Territorial Army Centenary</I> & 66081 stand in Didcot station yard on 21 April with Didcot power station in the left background.<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 21/04/2011]](/images/33000/33752.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![66033 standing alongside Didcot station on 21 April 2011. This locomotive is part of the <I>Euro Cargo Rail</I> fleet, as shown by the red and white markings under the front window and the white patch at the far end.... not to mention the words <I>Euro Cargo Rail</I> on the bodysides.<br><br>[Peter Todd 21/04/2011]](/images/33000/33787.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![A touch of the ancient and modern at Didcot on 21 April 2011 with 66118 and 08757 standing alongside the station. The class 08 was duty shunter that day and must be at least 50 years old.<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 21/04/2011]](/images/33000/33801.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Restored GWR steam railmotor no 93 in operation at the Great Western Society depot at Didcot on 17 May 2011. Photographed from the platform at Didcot Station.<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 17/05/2011]](/images/34000/34137.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![EWS 66204 has just drawn to a halt in Didcot Yard with a freight on the afternoon of 16 June.<br><br>[Peter Todd 16/06/2011]](/images/34000/34538.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![The 0700 Edinburgh - Reading CrossCountry DMU eastbound at Didcot on 16 June 2011.<br><br>[Peter Todd 16/06/2011]](/images/34000/34562.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![DBS 66162 with eastbound containers passing Didcot on 16 June.<br><br>[Peter Todd 16/06/2011]](/images/34000/34686.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Freightliner 66538 eastbound off the Oxford curve through Didcot with a container train on 16 June 2011<br><br>[Peter Todd 16/06/2011]](/images/36000/36419.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![66556 with a train of containers, held at the west end of Didcot station on the afternoon of 11 August 2011, alongside one of the cooling towers of Didcot power station.<br><br>[Peter Todd 11/08/2011]](/images/35000/35224.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![166218 eastbound from Didcot on 11 August 2011 with the 14.07 Oxford - London Paddington.<br><br>[Peter Todd 11/08/2011]](/images/35000/35231.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![DBS 66116 heading west towards Didcot on 11 August 2011 in the process of restarting following a red signal. Note the 'heavy lift' Balfour Beatty crane in the consist.<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 11/08/2011]](/images/35000/35238.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Platform scene at Didcot on 11 August 2011, with a name from the distant past now carried on the side of an HST! [With acknowledgement to the achievments of railway pioneer Richard Trevithick 1771-1833]<br><br>[Peter Todd 11/08/2011]](/images/35000/35247.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![31285 dead in the station sidings at Didcot on 11 August at the head of a Network Rail train.<br><br>[Peter Todd 11/08/2011]](/images/35000/35255.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Freightliner 66542 brings an eastbound freight through Didcot station in August 2011.<br><br>[Peter Todd 11/08/2011]](/images/35000/35462.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Feightliner 66556 heads east along the Great Western main line towards London on 11 August 2011 after being held for nearly 90 mins on the western approach to Didcot station [See image 35224]<br><br>[Peter Todd 11/08/2011]](/images/35000/35472.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Freightliner 66518 brings a container train round the north to east curve between Oxford and Didcot on 11 August 2011.<br><br>[Peter Todd 11/08/2011]](/images/35000/35528.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![A <I>Pullman</I> special passing east through Didcot on 14 October, with 67003 leading and 67030 on the rear [see image 36066].<br><br>[Peter Todd 14/10/2011]](/images/36000/36020.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![DBS 66068 carrying out some shunting operations in the yard at Didcot on a sunny 14 October.<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 14/10/2011]](/images/36000/36027.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![DBS 67030 brings up the rear of an eastbound special passing through Didcot station on 14 October 2011. Sister locomotive 67003 is the locomotive on the other end of the train [see image 36020].<br><br>[Peter Todd 14/10/2011]](/images/36000/36064.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![67008 stands at Didcot station on a wet 3 November 2011 with a Network Rail RHTT (which included 67027 at the other end). The train was operating around the station area, the Didcot triangle and other associated lines.<br><br>[Peter Todd 03/11/2011]](/images/36000/36281.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![67027 is the trailing locomotive of a Network Rail RHTT at Didcot on 3 November 2011, sharing duties with 67008 [see image 36281].<br><br>[Peter Todd 03/11/2011]](/images/36000/36291.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Freightliner 66564 with an Eastbound freight through Didcot on 3 November 2011 passes a static 66126 in EWS livery.<br><br>[Peter Todd 03/11/2011]](/images/36000/36299.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![66108 runs through Didcot with a westbound freight on a wet and overcast 3 November 2011.<br><br>[Peter Todd 03/11/2011]](/images/36000/36335.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![New style container traffic for the tip - seen at Didcot on 15 December 2011.<br><br>[Peter Todd 15/12/2011]](/images/36000/36824.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Freightliner 70007 turns north through Didcot with a container train from Southampton on 15 December.<br><br>[Peter Todd 15/12/2011]](/images/36000/36836.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Freightliner 66539 awaits the road east at Didcot on 15 December 2011 with containers bound for Southampton.<br><br>[Peter Todd 15/12/2011]](/images/36000/36874.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![DBS 66020 comes off the Oxford line and runs east through Didcot on 15 December with a container train.<br><br>[Peter Todd 15/12/2011]](/images/36000/36902.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![DBS 66112 Oxford bound through Platform 3 of Didcot Station on 5 January with a rake of car transporter empties.<br><br>[Peter Todd 05/01/2012]](/images/37000/37152.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Freightliner 66567 heading east after restarting its train following a long wait in the loop at Didcot on 5 January 2012.<br><br>[Peter Todd 05/01/2012]](/images/37000/37188.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![EWS 67025 runs through Didcot on 1 February with a northbound freight in the Oxford direction, thought to be heading for the MOD at Bicester.<br><br>[Peter Todd 01/02/2012]](/images/37000/37485.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![66037 waiting with containers at Didcot on 1 February 2012, about to depart eastbound for Southampton.<br><br>[Peter Todd 01/02/2012]](/images/37000/37566.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Freightliner 70008 with eastbound containers off the Oxford line through Didcot on 12 April 2012 heading for Southampton.<br><br>[Peter Todd 12/03/2012]](/images/38000/38439.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![180 106, front end, on an Oxford - Paddington service at Didcot on 29 March 2012 displaying the newly painted First Great Western colour scheme.<br><br>[Peter Todd 29/03/2012]](/images/38000/38175.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![DBS liveried 60079 passing through Didcot on 29 March with a Theale - Robeston oil train.<br><br>[Peter Todd 29/03/2012]](/images/38000/38186.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![The rear of First Great Western unit 180 106 photographed passing through Didcot station on 29 March 2012. The set is being utilised for driver training purposes and is seen here on its way to Oxford.<br><br>[Peter Todd 29/03/2012]](/images/38000/38224.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![First Great Western 166 210 running into Didcot station on 29 March with an Oxford - Paddington service.<br><br>[Peter Todd 29/03/2012]](/images/38000/38322.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Freightliner 66556 eastbound through Didcot towards London on 29 March with a freight from Avonmouth Docks.<br><br>[Peter Todd 29/03/2012]](/images/38000/38523.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Freightliner 66540 gets the road east through Didcot on 17 May 2012 with a load of containers from Wentloog, Cardiff, heading for Southampton. <br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 17/05/2012]](/images/38000/38893.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![31105 on a departmental working in Didcot sidings on 17 May 2012.<br><br>[Peter Todd 17/05/2012]](/images/38000/38898.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![A Networrk Rail track cleaning unit standing in the sidings at Didcot on 17 May 2012. <br><br>[Peter Todd 17/05/2012]](/images/38000/38944.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![EWS 66096 passing the GWS site at Didcot with a container train on 17 May heading east towards Reading.<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 17/05/2012]](/images/38000/38960.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![The original BR prototype gas turbine locomotive 18000 stands in the sidings at GWS Didcot on 28 June 2012.<br><br>[Peter Todd 28/06/2012]](/images/39000/39402.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![66096 runs round a coal train at Didcot power station on 28 June 2012.<br><br>[Peter Todd 28/06/2012]](/images/39000/39406.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![60163 <I>'Tornado'</I> passing Didcot on 28 June 2012 on its way from Salisbury to Worcester Shrub Hill with the <I>Cathedrals Express</I>.<br><br>[Peter Todd 28/06/2012]](/images/39000/39414.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![66096 and 70009 with freights at Didcot.<br><br>[Peter Todd 28/06/2012]](/images/39000/39512.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![A train from Paddington takes the Oxford line after leaving Didcot on 23 August 2012. <br><br>[Peter Todd 23/08/2012]](/images/40000/40063.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![A quiet spot. Didcot station, 23 August 2012.<br><br>[Peter Todd 23/08/2012]](/images/40000/40069.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Network Rail DBSO 9701 stands in the sidings at Didcot on 23 August 2012.<br><br>[Peter Todd 23/08/2012]](/images/40000/40076.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![EWS liveried 08752 stands in the sidings at Didcot on 23 August 2012.<br><br>[Peter Todd 23/08/2012]](/images/40000/40081.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![31105 stands at Didcot station on 23 August 2012. The class 31 is now part of Network Rail's track inspection fleet.<br><br>[Peter Todd 23/08/2012]](/images/40000/40102.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Freightliner 70009 brings a freight off the Oxford line through Didcot on 23 August 2012. <br><br>[Peter Todd 23/08/2012]](/images/40000/40117.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![DBS 60063 runs east through Didcot station on 23 August 2012 with a train of oil tanks. <br><br>[Peter Todd 23/08/2012]](/images/40000/40140.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![31465 stands at Didcot on 1 November 2012 at the head of a Network Rail measurement train.<br><br>[Peter Todd 01/11/2012]](/images/40000/40863.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Freightliner 70020 westbound through Didcot on 1 November 2012 with a container train bound for Wentloog.<br><br>[Peter Todd 01/11/2012]](/images/40000/40878.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Locomotives 47843 and 66182 stabled in the station sidings at Didcot on 1 November.<br><br>[Peter Todd 01/11/2012]](/images/40000/40888.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Freightliner 70007 comes off the Oxford line alongside Didcot station on 1 November 2012 hauling a trainload of containers bound for Southampton.<br><br>[Peter Todd 01/11/2012]](/images/40000/40896.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![DBS 60019 eastbound at Didcot with a trainload of concrete sleepers on 1 November under a threatening sky.<br><br>[Peter Todd 01/11/2012]](/images/40000/40907.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![DRS 66416 secured to the rear of a container train hauled by Freightliner 66538 passing through Didcot station on 1 November 2012. (A banker perchance?)<br><br>[Peter Todd 01/11/2012]](/images/40000/40917.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Freightliner 66538 with eastbound containers through Didcot station on 1 November 2012 passing a Network Rail test train stabled alongside in the north sidings.<br><br>[Peter Todd 01/11/2012]](/images/40000/40936.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![DBS 66001 at Didcot on 1 November 2012 with a 'train' for the local Ministry of Defence depot.<br><br>[Peter Todd 01/11/2012]](/images/40000/40950.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![The east end signal gantry at Didcot in the early morning sun on 4 December 2012.<br><br>[Peter Todd 04/12/2012]](/images/41000/41256.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![LMS 6201 <I>Princess Elizabeth</I> approaching Didcot with a special on 4 December. The Stanier Pacific was bound for the Oxford line hauling a Slough to Chester excursion.<br><br>[Peter Todd 04/12/2012]](/images/41000/41264.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Stanier Pacific 6201 <I>Princess Elizabeth</I> takes the east to north curve at Didcot on 4 December with a special for Chester.<br><br>[Peter Todd 04/12/2012]](/images/41000/41270.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![It would appear that the Didcot Railway Centre have taken to using their mobile crane as shed shunter! View from the platform at Didcot station on 4 December. <br><br>[Peter Todd 04/12/2012]](/images/41000/41279.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Running 45 minutes late, 6201 <I>Princess Elizabeth</I> passes Didcot with a special for Chester at 08.45 on 4 December 2012. Had the train been on schedule it is doubtful if enough light would have been available to capture an image.<br><br>[Peter Todd 04/12/2012]](/images/41000/41286.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Freightliner 70020 eastbound through Didcot station with containers on 5 February 2013.<br><br>[Peter Todd 05/02/2013]](/images/41000/41956.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![DBS 67006 <I>Royal Sovereign</I> in Didcot sidings on 5 February with a freight destined for the MOD depot at Bicester.<br><br>[Peter Todd 05/02/2013]](/images/41000/41961.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Freightliner 70020 close-up, passing through Didcot on 5 February 2013.<br><br>[Peter Todd 05/02/2013]](/images/41000/41977.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Freightliner 66592, Oxford bound through Didcot on 5 February, passing the new platform at the Didcot Rail Centre.<br><br>[Peter Todd 05/02/2013]](/images/41000/41986.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![66068 at the head of a Network Rail PW train full of concrete sleepers passing through Didcot station on 26 March 2013.<br><br>[Peter Todd 26/03/2013]](/images/43000/43379.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![66588 brings containers through Didcot station on 26 April 2013.<br><br>[Peter Todd 26/04/2013]](/images/42000/42868.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![165109 calls at Didcot on 26 April 2013 with an Oxford line service. <br><br>[Peter Todd 26/04/2013]](/images/42000/42877.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![The end. 66093 stands in the shadow of Didcot A on 26 April 2013. The coal-fired power station had been disconnected from the national grid 5 weeks earlier after 43 years of service. The six iconic cooling towers will eventually be pulled down removing the notable landmark from the Oxfordshire skyline. [See image 39406]<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 26/04/2013]](/images/42000/42882.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![66074 brings a freight west through Didcot station on 26 April 2013, while over on the left a class 166 DMU is about to restart a service to Paddington.<br><br>[Peter Todd 26/04/2013]](/images/42000/42944.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![165117 stands at the platform at Didcot on 26 April 2013.<br><br>[Peter Todd 26/04/2013]](/images/43000/43288.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Freightliner 66540 <I>Ruby</I> passing one of her admirers on Didcot station in April 2013. <br><br>[Peter Todd 26/04/2013]](/images/43000/43568.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Direct Rail Services 66418 approaching Didcot eastbound on 1 August with a train of empty container flats.<br><br>[Peter Todd 01/08/2013]](/images/44000/44038.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Locomotives 08752, 66054, 66134 and 66116 stand in the yard in front of Didcot A Power Station on 1 August 2013. The coal-fired power station ceased generating in March 2013 after 43 years. The decommissioning process is scheduled for completion by the end of the year, following which the station's six iconic cooling towers will be demolished, removing a notable landmark from the Oxfordshire skyline.<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 01/08/2013]](/images/44000/44050.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![66194 creeps into the sidings at Didcot on 22 November with a lengthy freight.<br><br>[Peter Todd 22/11/2013]](/images/45000/45390.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![67005 <I>Queen's Messenger</I> and 66167 in the sidings alongside Didcot station on 22 November.<br><br>[Peter Todd 22/11/2013]](/images/45000/45396.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![66118 dead in the sidings alongside Didcot station on 12 June 2014, now in DB Schenker colours.<br><br>[Peter Todd 12/06/2014]](/images/47000/47627.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Freightliner 66502 with an eastbound container train at Didcot on 12 June 2014. Unfortunately the locomotive went on to suffer a brake fire at Tilehurst, resulting in closure of the GW main line for approximately two hours.<br><br>[Peter Todd 12/06/2014]](/images/47000/47635.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![66187 standing in the yards at Didcot on 12 June at the head of a covered car train.<br><br>[Peter Todd 12/06/2014]](/images/47000/47647.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Colas Rail 66850 runs east light engine through Didcot station on 12 June 2014.<br><br>[Peter Todd 12/06/2014]](/images/47000/47659.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Freightliner 70016 leading a Wentloog to Tilbury container train through Didcot station on 24 September.<br><br>[Peter Todd 24/09/2014]](/images/48000/48814.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![DRS 37688 stands alongside Didcot station on 24 September at the head of a Network Rail Track Measurement train.<br><br>[Peter Todd 24/09/2014]](/images/48000/48821.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![DRS 37688 <I>Kingmoor TMD</I> standing alongside Didcot station on 25 September 2014. [See image 48821]<br><br>[Peter Todd 25/09/2014]](/images/48000/48836.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![EWS 66080 passing Didcot northbound on the Oxford line on 25 September with an empty car train.<br><br>[Peter Todd 25/09/2014]](/images/48000/48845.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Freightliner 66527 with a ballast train, runs through Didcot station on 22 January 2015. Ultimate destination is the virtual quarry at Hinksey, just south of Oxford.<br><br>[Peter Todd 22/01/2015]](/images/50000/50111.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![West Coast 37706 eastbound light engine through Didcot on 22 January 2015 heading for Southall.<br><br>[Peter Todd 22/01/2015]](/images/50000/50121.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Freightliner 66516 about to passing through Didcot station from the Bristol direction with a container train on 22 January 2015. Note the recent changes to the Oxfordshire skyline [see image 44038].<br><br>[Peter Todd 22/01/2015]](/images/50000/50132.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![67003, 67006 and the DB badge on a passing class 66, photographed at Didcot on 15 April 2015.<br><br>[Peter Todd 15/04/2015]](/images/51000/51017.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Colas 60076 runs through Didcot on 15 April 2015 with a rake of steel coil wagons.<br><br>[Peter Todd 15/04/2015]](/images/51000/51049.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Three different class 67 liveries in the sidings at Didcot on 15 April 2015. From left to right are 67003, 67006 and 67025.<br><br>[Peter Todd 15/04/2015]](/images/51000/51087.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![66098 passing Didcot northbound on 15 April 2015 with a trainload of spoil from the Crossrail project.<br><br>[Peter Todd 15/04/2015]](/images/51000/51105.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![DB Schenker 60063 heading the Theale Sidings to Robeston Murco Tanks west through Didcot on 11 June 2015.<br><br>[Peter Todd 11/06/2015]](/images/51000/51617.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Freightliner 70014 makes its presence felt (and heard) as it accelerates an eastbound container train through the platforms of Didcot station on 11 June 2015.<br><br>[Peter Todd 11/06/2015]](/images/51000/51641.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![97302 (37170) in Network Rail colours, stabled in the sidings alongside Didcot station on 11 June 2015 at the head of Track Measurement Train.<br><br>[Peter Todd 11/06/2015]](/images/51000/51648.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Royal Train behind 67005 <I>Queen's Messenger</I> eastbound through Didcot on 11 June. No Royals on board on this occasion but their luggage and security detail (by all accounts).<br><br>[Peter Todd 11/06/2015]](/images/51000/51658.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Framed by substantial signal gantry, DBS <I>Super 60</I> 60054 heads west through Didcot with the Murco tanks on 8th October 2015. This train runs from Theale in Berkshire to Robeston in South Wales.<br><br>[Peter Todd 08/10/2015]](/images/52000/52867.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Freightliner 66524 takes a load of prefabricated points through Didcot on 8th October 2015. The wagons pictured were two out of a large number with similar loads and the train was also conveying ballast trucks. Apparently the consist was heading for the Southampton area for a major relaying possession. <br><br>[Peter Todd 08/10/2015]](/images/52000/52873.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Close up of the cab of Freightliner 66524, including a Health and Safety reminder to staff alongside the driver's window. The loco was passing through Didcot on an infrastructure working to Southampton. <br><br>[Peter Todd 08/10/2015]](/images/52000/52897.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Freightliner 70010 powers through Didcot with an eastbound container train on 081015. <br><br>[Peter Todd 08/10/2015]](/images/52000/52899.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![A FGW (Now GWR) service formed by <I>Adelante</I> 180102 passes Didcot heading for Oxford and the Cotswolds line to Worcester with a service from Paddington on 081015.<br><br>[Peter Todd 08/10/2015]](/images/52000/52910.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![66589, on an eastbound container train, passes a Network Rail gang engaged on track maintenance in the sidings at Didcot on 081015. <br><br>[Peter Todd 08/10/2015]](/images/52000/52914.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![A sunny 8th October 2015 saw DRS Class 37s top and tail a Network Rail trainset through Didcot and on to the Oxford line. 37605 was the lead loco with 37604 trailing.<br><br>[Peter Todd 08/10/2015]](/images/52000/52928.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![A Colas Permanent Way Tamper heading east past Didcot on 8th October 2015. This movement was probably in association with a large engineering possession in the Southampton area that generated other trains through Didcot on this date. <br><br>[Peter Todd 08/10/2015]](/images/52000/52941.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![66076 brings a very long car train into the station sidings at Didcot on 22 January 2015.<br><br>[Peter Todd 22/10/2015]](/images/50000/50144.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Freightliner 70011 takes an eastbound Freightliner past Didcot station on 23rd December 2015. <br><br>[Peter Todd 23/12/2015]](/images/53000/53757.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![HST power car 43126, bedecked in <I>Bristol - European Green Capital 2015</I> bodyside vinyls, speeds through Didcot on 23rd December 2015 passing under the temporary footbridge. <br><br>[Peter Todd 23/12/2015]](/images/53000/53762.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Colas Rail <I>Plasser & Theurer</I> Switch & Crossing Tamper machine DR73935 passing through Didcot station on 23rd December 2015.<br><br>[Peter Todd 23/12/2015]](/images/53000/53767.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![DBS liveried 67018 <I>Keith Heller</I> is seen out of use in the station sidings at Didcot just before the Christmas shutdown of the network. Stabled alongside the Class 67 are two EWS liveried 66s, Nos. 66116 and 66126.<br><br>[Peter Todd 28/12/2015]](/images/53000/53752.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![The new view west from Didcot station on 24 March 2016. Gantry erection for the GWML electrification project appears to be progressing well, despite the media!<br><br>[Peter Todd 24/03/2016]](/images/54000/54577.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![GWR 166208 in Didcot Station on 24 March 2016. The unit is now painted in the new GWR colours.<br><br>[Peter Todd 24/03/2016]](/images/54000/54690.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![A shot of the overhead catenary erected at Didcot.<br><br>[Peter Todd 16/06/2016]](/images/55000/55538.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Colas 37s, 37116 & 37219, pause under the newly erected catenary at Didcot on 16 June 2016. After the driver changed ends this Network Rail train headed for Oxford and beyond.<br><br>[Peter Todd 16/06/2016]](/images/55000/55543.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![60039 west bound with the Theale to Robeston oil tanks.<br><br>[Peter Todd 16/06/2016]](/images/55000/55551.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![37116 & 37219 about to return to Oxford and beyond after the driver changed ends.<br><br>[Peter Todd 16/06/2016]](/images/55000/55591.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![59204, one of the NPower class 59's, now owned by DB Schenker. Headed light engine east through Didcot on 16 June.<br><br>[Peter Todd 16/06/2016]](/images/55000/55595.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![66136 arriving at Didcot with a covered car train on 16 June 2016. The train ran into the sidings prior to heading north.<br><br>[Peter Todd 16/06/2016]](/images/55000/55598.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Freightliner 66414 eastbound through platform 4. <br><br>[Peter Todd 16/06/2016]](/images/58000/58116.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![253 001 in original BR colours on the day of the Didcot Railway Centre open day.<br><br>[Peter Todd 27/07/2016]](/images/56000/56380.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![GWR <I>Adelante</I> 180106 eastbound for Paddington alongside the Didcot Railway Centre <I>main line</I>. GWR King 6023 was in steam on this day and I was hoping to photograph this and a modern train together but alas it was not to be.<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 27/07/2016]](/images/56000/56601.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![HST 125 43005 at Didcot on 27 July 2016 in the new GWR Colours... unfortunately the rest of the train wasn't!<br><br>[Peter Todd 27/07/2016]](/images/58000/58104.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Barclay 0-4-0ST. (United Steel Companies; Ore Mining Branch; Cottesmore Branch) I suspect it is on loan from the Rutland Rly. (or whatever its new name is).<br><br>[Peter Todd 27/07/2016]](/images/61000/61738.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![The chap in front of me is quite a bit younger than I am - so his sense of wonder at the Transfer Shed (broad gauge to the left, standard to the right) is even greater than mine.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 30/07/2016]](/images/56000/56038.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![DB Schenker 66095 departing Didcot sidings with a car train for Southampton Docks.<br><br>[Peter Todd 27/08/2016]](/images/58000/58072.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Freightliner 66420 en route from Crewe to Southampton, passing through Platform 4 at Didcot in August 2016. Note the new waiting room being built on Platforms 2&3.<br><br>[Peter Todd 27/08/2016]](/images/58000/58089.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![DB Schenker 66230 in the bushes at 1138 hours.<br><br>[Peter Todd 07/10/2016]](/images/56000/56959.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Freightliner 70015 northbound to Oxford at 1141 hours.<br><br>[Peter Todd 07/10/2016]](/images/56000/56968.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![DB Schenker 66132 departing Didcot eastbound with a loaded car train, I assume for Southampton, with 66077 in the background at 1116 hours.<br><br>[Peter Todd 07/10/2016]](/images/56000/56980.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Class 08 No 604 'Phantom'. The Didcot Rly. Centre's shed shunter.<br><br>[Peter Todd 15/03/2017]](/images/58000/58493.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![66147 shunting wagons from Network Rail into the Steam Centre.<br><br>[Peter Todd 15/03/2017]](/images/58000/58510.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![The OLE is progressing well, heading west. Apparently the Electrics come to Didcot at night on trials etc. Not too sure what power they use, diesel or OLE.<br>
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37424 arrived from Oxford and rapidly departed west towards Swindon.<br><br>[Peter Todd 15/03/2017]](/images/58000/58531.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![66095, with stablemates, parked in the station sidings at Didcot.<br><br>[Peter Todd 15/03/2017]](/images/58000/58535.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![70003 heading a Freightliner from Bristol to London.<br><br>[Peter Todd 15/03/2017]](/images/58000/58539.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![66543 & 66567 double head a Freightliner north to Oxford.<br><br>[Peter Todd 15/03/2017]](/images/58000/58541.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Freightliner 70005 on an eastbound train through Didcot in March 2017.<br><br>[Peter Todd 15/03/2017]](/images/58000/58653.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Freightliner 70010 passes eastbound through Didcot with a container train on 15 March 2017.<br><br>[Peter Todd 15/03/2017]](/images/58000/58734.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![37608 topping and tailing a Network Rail Test train with 37611 on 15th June 2017. A pause before heading towards Oxford. Both the Class 37s were until recently part of the DRS fleet, now owned by Euro-Phoenix.<br><br>[Peter Todd 15/06/2017]](/images/59000/59704.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![DBS 66136, westbound through Didcot with a rake of stone empties bound for the Somerset Quarries on 15th June 2017. This engine hauled the first London to China freight train recently.<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 15/06/2017]](/images/59000/59893.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![43027 with a vinyl celebrating the Queen's 90th birthday (April 2016), seen at Didcot on 16th June 2017.<br><br>[Peter Todd 16/06/2017]](/images/59000/59719.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![A shot of 66149 hiding in the background at Didcot. <br>
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I was misinformed and told 35028 Clan Line would be departing Didcot today at 1120, heading east. Oops, it left on Friday. I suspect it was enroute to the Mid-Hants Rly, they are having a Gala Weekend to celebrate the end of Southern Steam in 1967. Five Bullieds in steam, who would have thought it?<br><br>[Peter Todd 01/07/2017]](/images/59000/59993.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![60020 heading a westbound Theale to Robeston oil tanks @ 1410 hours.<br><br>[Peter Todd 03/08/2017]](/images/60000/60358.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![66508 with a short ballast train bound for Hinksey yard, Oxford.<br><br>[Peter Todd 03/08/2017]](/images/60000/60376.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![165 111 arriving from Oxford, leading a six car DMU set.<br><br>[Peter Todd 03/08/2017]](/images/60000/60385.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![180-103 taking the fast line to Oxford and beyond.<br><br>[Peter Todd 03/08/2017]](/images/60000/60390.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Work on Didcot's Platform 1; building up the platform to accommodate the new electric trains.<br><br>[Peter Todd 03/08/2017]](/images/60000/60395.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![The new Class 800's are now out and about, some on crew training and others on passenger duty in the GWR livery. I assume they are now giving a full rake of vehicles one nmber as on this unit, seen here under crew training awaiting the road to London, both leading and trailing cars carried the number 800-002. 9th November 2017<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 09/11/2017]](/images/61000/61791.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Two rakes of Class 387 EMUs in the sidings close to Didcot station, all in new GWR colours. EMU 387-162 on show. 9th November 2017.<br>
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<br><br>[Peter Todd 09/11/2017]](/images/61000/61862.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Colas 37421 passing Didcot at speed heading for Oxford with a Network Rail test train on 9th November 2017.<br>
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<br><br>[Peter Todd 09/11/2017]](/images/61000/61870.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![59201 passing through Didcot station with a long loaded stone train heading north for Oxford and beyond. 9th November 2017.<br>
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<br><br>[Peter Todd 09/11/2017]](/images/61000/61883.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![800-002 departing Didcot for London under electric power with a raised pantograph. This was a crew traiing run on 9th November 2017.<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 09/11/2017]](/images/61000/61904.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![66099 arriving into the Didcot station sidings with what must be the longest car train on the UK network. 9th November 2017.<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 09/11/2017]](/images/61000/61937.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![A strange visitor to Didcot on the 8th January 2018. I have no idea where it was going to or coming from. Any further information would be welcome.<br>
<br><br>[Alastair McLellan 08/01/2018]](/images/62000/62762.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Scene at Didcot on 20 January 2018, where twelve car EMU's are now gradually replacing 166 DMU's. However, the 166s still run to Oxford, so passengers have to change at Didcot. The 800's are running under electric power as far as Didcot and possibly further. Swindon goes live in April 2018. 387159 runs into Didcot from Paddington under electric power on a wet 20th January 2018.<br>
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<br><br>[Peter Todd 20/01/2018]](/images/62000/62571.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![66's still dominate on freight at Didcot, although apparently GBRf are taking over some DB EWS turns. 66108, 66103 and 66030, running light from Acton to Hinksey (Oxford), pass through on a murky 20th January 2018.<br>
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<br><br>[Peter Todd 20/01/2018]](/images/62000/62625.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![GBRf 66753 <I>EMD Roberts Road</I>, westbound at speed through Platform 3 at Didcot on 20th January 2018 heading for Cardiff.<br>
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<br><br>[Peter Todd 20/01/2018]](/images/62000/62634.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![New GWR EMU 387166 at Didcot on 20th January 2018, waiting to head back to Paddington.<br>
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<br><br>[Peter Todd 20/01/2018]](/images/62000/62648.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![A trip to Didcot on 8th March 2018 showed that the electrics are beginning to take over and I guess within a year most of the diesel powered passenger services will have gone. I'm told it is hoped the electric power will be on to Swindon and Royal Wootton Bassett by August. The new extension on Platforms 2 and 3 is also taking shape.<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 08/03/2018]](/images/63000/63178.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![GWR 800 031 taking the line to Oxford on diesel power at Didcot on 8th March 2018. I didn't see any Class 180 Adelantes on this visit and so I assume the Class 800s have taken over their duties and are now travelling as far as Worcester and perhaps Hereford.<br>
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<br><br>[Peter Todd 08/03/2018]](/images/63000/63243.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Great Western line photographers are having to get used to working around electrification masts and gantries now. 70011 & 66570 are seen on an eastbound Freightliner from Leeds bound for Southampton. 8th March 2018.<br>
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<br><br>[Peter Todd 08/03/2018]](/images/63000/63256.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![DB 60001 approaching Didcot alongside the new extension of Platforms 2 and 3. The train is the westbound Murco oil tanks bound for Robeston, South Wales.<br>
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<br><br>[Peter Todd 08/03/2018]](/images/63000/63297.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
![Freightliner 70017, eastbound from Oxford bound for Southampton with an intermodal service on 8th March 2018.<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 08/03/2018]](/images/63000/63313.jpg "Didcot Parkway")
