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The Oxfordshire Ironstone Railway was a standard gauge mineral railway that served an ironstone quarry near the village of Wroxton in Oxfordshire. ==The line's History== It linked the quarry with the Great Western Railway about to the east at a junction just north of Banbury. The OIR was opened between 1917 and 1919,〔http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/199178〕 was closed in 1967〔http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/199178〕 and the line was 'lifted', that is the line was closed and removed, between 1967 and 1968. The quarry was heavily worked in the Second World War. A newer quarry close by is now served by road haulage only. The line was extended to the Balscote Quarry which was worked between 1956 and its closure in 1967.〔http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/197427〕 The OIR operated its own fleet of steam locomotives: 0-6-0T and 0-6-0ST locomotives built by Hunslet and 0-4-0ST's built by Hudswell Clarke. They also purchased two diesel Rolls Royce Sentinel units in the 1960s.〔http://www.nvr.org.uk/istg/oic.php〕 The mine buildings and workers' halt are now a small set of new light industrial buildings, built circa 2006. The track works' permanent way hut (p-hut) still stood at Drayton in 2007 and Horley in 2002. A few old OIR fence posts/gates remain to this day along the route. Banbury's Ruscote and Hardwick estate are also built over a large part of its route, including most of the former Pin Hill farm grading works. Many heavy clay and Ironstone deposits surround Banbury and Wroxton.〔http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:sppuMpvgMg8J:www.oum.ox.ac.uk/learning/pdfs/oxmin.pdf+clay+pits+in+banbury&hl=en&gl=uk&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgn-Yi-g1qgnV32eBJ5Bi24KzjITDU7kcw_uL-KWGxPnzzgLbT8n9stdyOyB9bxEnAdJs1yyzKFGNwmj0NWApex23PAad6KTYb4lJdKEqLBNLnqifn3yk8Xc8Fp-ya8DY20dPo5&sig=AHIEtbREJLbdRHQ5aetZoqTAk3mdY2Gy0w〕〔http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/community/memorylane/4790425.Take_a_ride_on_our_lost_railways/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Oxfordshire Ironstone Railway」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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