The Cholsey and Wallingford Railway is a 2+1⁄2-mile (4 km) long standard gauge heritage railway in the English county of Oxfordshire. It operates along most of the length of the former Wallingford branch of the Great Western Railway (GWR), from Cholsey station, 12 miles (19 km) north of Reading on the Great Western Main Line, to a station on the outskirts of the nearby town of Wallingford.
Peckett 0-4-0ST 'Northern Gas Board No. 1' runs round the train at Cholsey
Cholsey railway station from street level; the Cholsey and Wallingford branch platform is at upper level to right of building
Platform level at Cholsey station, with the terminus of the Cholsey and Wallingford line to the left
Peckett 0-4-0ST 'Northern Gas Board No. 1' at Cholsey
Ivor the Engine
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Ivor the Engine is a British cutout animation television series created by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin's Smallfilms company. It follows the adventures of a small green steam locomotive who lives in the "top left-hand corner of Wales" and works for The Merioneth and Llantisilly Railway Traction Company Limited. His friends include Jones the Steam, Evans the Song and Dai Station, among many other characters.
From Ivor the Engine (1959); Ivor with Jones the Steam on footplate
Ivor at the Battlefield Line Railway in August 2007.