To finish off our little tour of Bampton,we then went to the nearby church,that houses the Bampton Heritage Centre.Here you can see the famous model of Bampton Railway and a few other rail related items like the Station Master's hat.
- The Heritage Centre Bampton Railway model
- The Station Master's house on the model
- The Station Master's Hat
- The sad end
We left the church and walked back towards the car park with a certain sense of sadness.Wouldn't it be brilliant,if we could just jump on a steam train now and go on a journey out in the countryside,we thought?Wouldn't it be brilliant if we could stand on the bridge and look down at the tooting trains as we were enveloped in their steam as they passed?Wouldn't it be brilliant,if instead of this rather boring car park,Bampton had it's own little train station?
However,we had to leave those thoughts behind and then set off for home,but we didn't actually go home.Instead we got a bit side tracked(pardon the pun) and went and investigated the railway history of Scott's Quarry,but that's a story for another day!
1904 Bampton Map
