Places to see in ( Maidenhead - UK )
Places to see in ( Maidenhead - UK )
Maidenhead is a large town in the county of Berkshire, England. Maidenhead lies south-west of the River Thames, but at Maidenhead, the river runs north-south and so the town is on its west bank.
The Maidenhead urban area includes urban and suburban regions within the bounds of the town, called Maidenhead Court, North Town, Furze Platt (which in 2012 gained a conservation area), Pinkneys Green, Highway, Tittle Row, Boyn Hill, Fishery and Bray Wick; as well as built-up areas in surrounding civil parishes: Cox Green and Altwood in Cox Green parish, Woodlands Park in White Waltham parish, and part of Bray Wick in Bray parish. Bray village is linked to Maidenhead by the exclusive Fishery Estate which lies on the banks of the Thames. To the east, on the opposite side of the river from Maidenhead, is the large village of Taplow in Buckinghamshire which almost adjoins the suburban village of Burnham, Buckinghamshire, which is in itself part of the urban area of the large, industrial town of Slough.
Maidenhead clock tower was built for Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee and is located outside the railway station. Maidenhead Bridge was built in 1777. It takes the A4 over the Thames to join Maidenhead to Taplow. All Saints' Church, Boyne Hill was completed in 1857 is one of the finest examples of the early work of the architect G. E. Street. The site is also regarded by many as the premier architectural site in the town. The church, consecrated on 2 December 1857 by Bishop Samuel Wilberforce, became the first ecclesiastical parish in the Borough of Maidenhead. Boulter's Lock is a lock on the river Thames on the east side of Maidenhead. It adjoins Ray Mill Island.
The (Brunel-built) Great Western Main Line passes through the town, calling at Maidenhead railway station and offering frequent, direct services to London, Reading, Newbury and Oxford. Additionally, there are less frequent direct services to Banbury, Hereford, Worcester and Great Malvern. It passes over Brunel's Maidenhead Railway Bridge (known locally as the Sounding Arch), famous for its flat brick arches.
The A4 runs through the town and crosses the Thames over Maidenhead Bridge. The town lies adjacent to junction 8/9 on the M4 motorway and is accessed via the A404(M) and A308(M). The A308(M), A404(M) and A404 form the Marlow and Maidenhead bypass which also acts as an important link between the M4, to the south of the town, and M40 at High Wycombe.
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Trains at Maidenhead, GWML | 07/07/18
A busy and very warm afternoon at Maidenhead situated on the Great Western Mainline on the afternoon of Saturday 7th July 2018. We were watching the England v Sweden game, but i was more focused on getting the trains. Heathrow is nearby here and they were taking off on RWY27L which ment they went over this way if they were heading towards America or the North, these are eventually shown in the video.
Maidenhead info:
Maidenhead railway station serves the town of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England. It is 24 miles 19 chains (39.0 km) down the line from London Paddington and is situated between Taplow to the east and Twyford to the west.
It is served by local services operated by Great Western Railway and is also the junction for the Marlow Branch Line. It has five platforms which are accessed through ticket barriers at both entrances to the station. The Marlow line platform had an overall roof until 2014 when it was removed in the course of electrification works.
History:
The station is on the original line of the Great Western Railway, which opened as far as Reading in 1840. The original Maidenhead Station lay east of the Thames, not far from the present Taplow station. This was the line's first terminus, pending the completion of the Sounding Arch (Maidenhead Railway Bridge) bridge over the river. In 1854, the Wycombe Railway Company built a line from Maidenhead to High Wycombe, with a station on Castle Hill, at first called Maidenhead (Wycombe Branch), later renamed Maidenhead Boyne Hill. However, there was no station on the present site until 1871, when local contractor William Woodbridge built it. Originally, it was called Maidenhead Junction, but eventually it came to replace the Boyn Hill station as well as the original station on the Maidenhead Riverside.
In 2008 the station underwent major renovation works and in 2010 a statue of Nicholas Winton was installed on one of the platforms.
Station layout:
The main entrance to the station is on the A308 with a back entrance on Shoppenhangers Road. The station has five through platforms and no terminating platforms:
Platform 1 - For westbound trains on the main line. This platform is mainly used during peak times, as outside these times few trains on the main line stop at Maidenhead. It is outside of the ticket barriers at Shoppenhangers Road and the gate to the platform is only opened when a train is due to arrive.
Platform 2 - For eastbound trains on the main line. This platform is mainly used during peak times, as outside these times few trains on the main line stop at Maidenhead.
Platform 3 - For westbound trains on the relief line. The concourse is shared with platform 2.
Platform 4 - For eastbound trains on the relief line.
Platform 5 - For trains serving the Marlow branch line. Trains either begin/terminate here or continue to or from London on the relief line. This shares a concourse with platform 4.
Services:
As well as regular services to London Paddington (4tph basic, plus weekday peak extras), trains run to Reading (4tph weekdays, half-hourly Saturdays & Sundays) and to Bourne End & Marlow (hourly, including Sundays).
Crossrail:
Maidenhead was initially the planned western terminus of Crossrail Line 1 before an announcement was made in 2014 to move the terminus to Reading. Most Elizabeth Line trains will terminate at Maidenhead, with only two per hour continuing to Reading, so sidings will be built at Maidenhead to support.
The station is currently undergoing significant modification, including the replacement of the existing passenger waiting facilities, a new ticket hall, lifts, platform extensions to accommodate the longer trains, the introduction of overhead line equipment and the construction of new stabling and turnback facilities to the west of the station.
Statue:
In 2010 a statue was erected to honour the man dubbed the British Schindler for his work saving Jewish children from Nazi invasion. Sir Nicholas Winton was 29 when he smuggled 669 boys and girls, destined for concentration camps, out of Czechoslovakia in 1939. The statue, on platform three, depicts Winton sitting on a bench reading his famous scrapbook, which contained lists of all the children he helped to save.
The Thames at Maidenhead
Old footage (well, from 2006) of the Thames at Maidenhead - from Brunel's sounding arch and Maidenhead bridge to Boulters Lock and on towards Cookham.
Echo at Maidenhead railway bridge
Brunel's famous sounding arch tested. Built in 1838, this brick railway arch has absolutely stunning acoustics.
[Wikipedia] Maidenhead Railway Bridge
Maidenhead Railway Bridge (aka Maidenhead Viaduct, The Sounding Arch) is a railway bridge carrying the main line of the Great Western Railway over the River Thames between Maidenhead, Berkshire and Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England. It crosses the Thames on the reach between Bray Lock and Boulter's Lock at the downstream end of Guards Club Island.
Maidenhead Railway Bridge features in Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway, painted by Turner in 1844 and now in the National Gallery, London
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UK: LMS Stanier Class 5 45407 'The Lancashire Fusilier' on a light engine move west of Maidenhead
LMS Stanier Class 5 45407 'The Lancashire Fusilier' is recorded west of Maidenhead on a light engine move from Stewarts Lane depot to Heywood on the East Lancs Railway.
Clip recorded 27th February 2006 from the Westacott Way overbridge overlooking the Great Western Main Line.
LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 45407 'The Lancashire Fusilier' is a LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 locomotive engine built at Armstrong Whitworth in 1937. Owned by railway engineering company Riley and Son, it is one of 18 surviving Black 5 locomotives.
No. 45407 was built by Armstrong Whitworth of Scotswood, Newcastle, in 1937 for the London Midland and Scottish Railway. It was works No. 1462, one of 226 locomotives which formed the largest order ever placed with a private builder by a British railway company, worth £2.7 million.
It was outshopped initially to Kettering, and then worked along the Midland Main Line. In the late 1960s the engine was moved between various sheds ending up at Lostock Hall in 1968.
One of the final Black 5s in operation, 45407 was withdrawn on 4 August 1968. Dr Peter Beet, the co-founder of Steamtown Carnforth, with Sir Bill McAlpine, and business partner David Davis, visited Lostock Hall MPD to choose a locomotive to save, selecting No. 45407.
In 1974, it was bought by Paddy Smith, who returned its to LMS livery. He operated the engine on various enthusiast tours, including the Settle-Carlisle Line, the Cambrian Coast Express, the Crewe to Holyhead Line; and The Jacobite between Fort William and Mallaig, where it spent three seasons in the late 1980s. After the last season in Scotland, No. 45407 was returned to Carnforth, and then moved to the East Lancashire Railway to run out the last three years of its boiler certificate.
In 1997, Ian Riley bought the engine, and had it overhauled at his railway engineering works, Riley and Son, Bury. The works included a new tender with greater water capacity, the fitting of air brake equipment to enable the engine to haul modern coaching stock. and the fitting of A.W.S. to comply with modern Safety and Signaling requirements.
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After the Great War, Armstrong Whitworth converted its Scotswood Works to build railway locomotives. From 1919 it rapidly penetrated the locomotive market due to its modern plant. Its two largest contracts were 200 2-8-0s for the Belgian State Railways in 1920 and 327 Black 5 4-6-0s for the LMS in 1935/36.
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Riley & Son (E) Ltd, is a railway locomotive engineering and refurbishment company. Founded in 1992 as Ian Riley Engineering, the company has been a leader in main line steam haulage, being one of the pioneers of fitting air brake, TPWS and OTMR equipment to steam locomotives. Having originally been based at the East Lancashire Railway in Bury, in 2016 it moved to Heywood.
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The Great Western Main Line is a main line railway in Great Britain, that runs westwards from London Paddington station to the west of England and South Wales. The core Great Western Main Line runs from London Paddington to Temple Meads railway station in Bristol. A major branch of the Great Western, the South Wales Main Line, diverges from the core line west of Swindon and terminates in Swansea. The term Great Western is also used by Network Rail and other rail transport organisations in the UK rail industry to denote a wider group of routes.
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Maidenhead is a large market town in Berkshire, England, on the south-western bank of the River Thames. With an estimated population approaching 68,000, Maidenhead is the largest town in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead and fourth largest town in Berkshire. As the crow flies, the town is situated 25.7 miles (41.4 km) west of Charing Cross, London, 11.7 miles (18.8 km) northeast of the county town of Reading, 28.3 miles (45.5 km) southeast of Oxford, 8.0 miles (12.9 km) east-south-east of Henley-on-Thames and 5.8 miles (9.3 km) northwest of Windsor.
The (Brunel-built) Great Western Main Line passes through the town, calling at Maidenhead railway station and offering frequent, direct services to London, Reading, Newbury, Didcot and Oxford. Additionally, there are less frequent direct services to Banbury, Hereford, Worcester and Great Malvern. It passes over Brunel's Maidenhead Railway Bridge (known locally as the Sounding Arch), famous for its flat brick arches. Maidenhead Station is the beginning of the Marlow Branch Line from Maidenhead to Marlow, Buckinghamshire, Furze Platt railway station on this branch also serves the northern area of Maidenhead.
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Eynsford Viaduct, Kent, England
This impressive nine-arched red-brick viaduct is a prominent feature on the line to the delightfully-named ''Bat & Ball'' station. The structure was built by the independent ''Sevenoaks Railway'', incorporated in 1859 to link the ''Chatham'' main line with the market town of Sevenoaks. The branch was initially single-track, seeing its first services on 2nd June 1862, but the viaduct was built to accommodate two tracks from the outset, because the line was doubled in the following year. A Maidstone extension from Otford opened on 1st June 1874, this again single-track, but following in the footsteps of the original Bat & Ball line, this was soon doubled, two-track working commencing on 11th August 1875. The viaduct has nine arches of 30-foot span and rises to a height of 75-feet above the valley.
Maidenhead Bridge
Maidenhead Bridge - this one is for you Neil!
London Streets (498.) - St. James's - Knightsbridge - Chelsea
Video from central London. We star at St. James's close t Pall Mall. We drive thru Tunnel under Hyde park corner,Knightsbridge and Fulham Road. We finished at Drayton Gardens.
Brunel final
Brunel walking animation test - still a bit strange and the movement needs to be refined but I'm happy for the first attempt
Flying Scotsman thro' Maidenhead
Flying Scotsman in grey undercoat passes thro' Maidenhead on a proving run following its overhaul at Southall.
Maidenhead & Marlow and District Model Railway Club Exhibition 6th January 2018 - Cox Green
Happy New Year. Our 1st exhibition of 2018 is the Marlow, Maidenhead and District Model Railway Club's annual exhibition which took place at Cox Green Community Centre on Saturday 6th January 2018. We have included two layouts:
Cromwell Road Bridge - British O gauge (Club Layout) – The club have embarked on a new finescale 7mm layout. The members involved in this layout have between them already amassed a large number of wagons therefore the focus of the layout will be either a large wagon fed warehouse or possibly a wagon repair facility - the requirement being to exhibit a wide variety of wagons and do plenty of shunting.
Eastwood Vermont - Minuteman to McGinnis- American HO gauge – Wealden Railway Group
HO USA 4mx2m overall. 1950’s-60’2 diesel transition in suburban Vermont Boston and Maine plus others
The model depicts the rather tired end of a small town. Small industries jostle alongside the trax all still making use of the rail road operators. The Boston and Maine pays little heed to what goes on here. Its trains rattle across the two lift bridges over the canal, but rarely stop. There are two short line operators working the freight yard and it is their switchers you will see switching cars into the various yard trax.
Thank you for watching
Steve and Anne
Steam and Model Railways
Snow in Maidenhead
Short video to show how fast and much snow we had on Feb 1, 2009 in Maidenhead
Tornado out-whistles, but Tangmere smokes it through Maidenhead.
LNER A1 Class 4-6-2 no 60163 Tornado, dukes it out with SR Light Pacific Battle of Britain Class no 34067 Tangmere, through Maidenhead on 9th March 2013, Tornado winning the whistling contest, and Tangmere winning the smoking contest. Call that an honourable draw then.
Its a cracking start to a hiatus of steam down the GWR, lots of services crammed in over the next few months before Reading becomes a no-go area. Tornado is pulling a unique service today (hopefully more of that later) with the Steam Dreams Cathedrals Express service Paddington/Plymouth/Paddington, and Tangmere is heading the Railway Touring Company Cotswold Venturer, Euston/Worcester/Paddington.
This is only my second visit to Maidenhead Station, so deserves some words.
The statue on the bench in the station, is the man dubbed the British Schindler for his work saving Jewish children from Nazi invasion. Sir Nicholas Winton was 29 when he smuggled 669 boys and girls, destined for concentration camps, out of Czechoslovakia in 1939. Still alive today at 103, he celebrated his 100th birthday flying over the nearby White Waltham Airfield in a microlight piloted by Judy Leden, the daughter of one of the boys he saved.
Maidenhead is a town and unparished area within the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, in Berkshire, England. It lies on the River Thames and is situated 25.7 miles (41.4 km) west of Charing Cross in London.
Maidenhead's name, strictly speaking, refers to the busy riverside area where the New wharf or Maiden Hythe was built, perhaps as early as Saxon times. It has been suggested that the nearby Great Hill of Taplow was called the Mai Dun by the Iron Age Brythons. The area of the town centre was originally known as South Ellington and is recorded in the Domesday Book as Ellington in the hundred of Beynhurst
In 1280, a bridge was erected across the river to replace a ferry in what was then the hamlet of South Ellington. The Great West Road to Reading, Gloucester and Bristol was diverted over the new bridge - previously it kept to the north bank crossed the Thames by ford at Cookham—and mediaeval Maidenhead grew up around it. Within a few years a wharf was constructed next to the bridge and the South Ellington name was dropped with the area becoming known as Maidenhythe (literally meaning new wharf). The earliest record of this name change is in the Bray Court manorial rolls of 1296. The bridge led to the growth of Maidenhead: a stopping point for coaches on the journeys between London and Bath and the High Street became populated with inns. The current Maidenhead Bridge, a local landmark, dates from 1777 and was built at a cost of £19,000.
King Charles I met his children for the last time before his execution in 1649 at the Greyhound Inn on the High Street, the site of which is now a branch of the NatWest Bank. A plaque commemorates their meeting.
When the Great Western Railway came to the town, it began to expand. Muddy roads were replaced and public services were installed. The High Street began to change again and substantial Victorian red brick architecture began to appear throughout the town. Maidenhead became its own entity in 1894, being split from the civil parishes of both Bray and Cookham.
By Edwardian times, Boulter's Lock nearby became a favoured resort especially on Ascot Sunday, and the Skindles hotel developed a reputation for illicit liaisons
On 12 July 1901, Maidenhead entered the UK Weather Records with the Highest 60-min total rainfall at 92 mm. As of April 2011, this record remains.
The (Brunel-built) Great Western Main Line passes through the town, calling at Maidenhead railway station and offering links to London and stations towards Bristol. It passes over Brunel's Maidenhead Railway Bridge (known locally as the Sounding Arch and painted by J W Turner), famous for its flat brick arches. Maidenhead Station is the beginning of the Marlow Branch Line from Maidenhead to Marlow, Buckinghamshire, and is one of the proposed termini for the London Crossrail scheme.
Currently, rail services are provided by First Great Western who took over the Thames Trains franchise in 2003/4.
Local bus services are provided by First Berkshire & The Thames Valley, Arriva the Shires and Essex and Courtney Coaches.
The A4 runs through the town and crosses the Thames over Maidenhead Bridge. The town lies adjacent to junction 8/9 on the M4 motorway (accessed via the A404(M) and A308(M)). The M4 and M40 are linked by the A404(M)/ A404 which skirts the western side of Maidenhead.
The River Thames runs half a mile to the east of the town centre, and York Stream, which runs through the town centre, connects to the Thames via a system of disused waterways. A renewal scheme is in progress (October 2007) to reopen these waterways. The Jubilee River, part of the flood defence scheme, begins above Boulter's Lock nearby.
The Windsor Link Railway for Windsor residents
A presentation explaining the benefits of WLR for Windsor residents.
Flying Scotsman at Gomshall
Flying Scotsman at Gomshall
David Walliams Thames Swim Boulters Lock Maidenhead Sat Sept 10th 2011
David Walliams approaches Boulters Lock Maidenhead on his amazing ThamesSwim for SportRelief
David Walliams at Benson Lock
Swimming the Thames
Maidenhead Waterways Start of Channel Works August 2015
Maidenhead Waterway Project - Start of channel works, August 2015, near the Library
Maidenhead - Timelapse Photography - GoPro Hero 3+ black
A time lapse photography video taken in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England over looking the Jubilee clock tower and train station.