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MOD Kineton and its Railway History

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I was challenged to look at MOD Kineton by someone who read my blog on Bicester Military Railway. This post is the result. ....

https://rogerfarnworth.wordpress.com/2018/08/09/mod-kineton-and-its-railway-history

MOD Kineton developed as a depot in the Second World War. Construction began in 1941 and the depot came to occupy most of the land between Kineton and Temple Herdwyke. It was a Central Ammunition Depot, it also served during the war as a transit camp, with Polish and Czechoslovakian troops based there.

The site continues in use into 21st Century. Much of the original railway and sidings at MOD Kineton has been removed but the depot continues to be rail-served and to have a significant internal rail network.
 
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Your post as above, seen very belatedly: thanks for the extremely interesting link, telling of associated matters concerning the Stratford-on-Avon & Midland Junction Railway, and its late-in-the-era and virtually stillborn offshoot the Edge Hill Light.

Fenny Compton -- MOD Kineton, the only surviving-in-use remnant of any kind, of the SMJ: which is one of those cross-country lesser lines which I would dearly love to have witnessed in action; but, born too late / in the wrong place !
 
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