A travel guide by Window Seater
London to Oxford on The Great Western Railway
About this trip
Start and end of the Great Western Railway, child of the engineering genius Brunel, and forever tied into the history, trade and culture and of Great Britain.
In this trip
London Paddington Station
Start and end of the Great Western Railway, child of the engineering genius Brunel, and forever tied into the history, trade and culture and of Great Britain.
James Bond Brutalism
Travelling out from London? Look for the Trellick Tower, a large high-rise apartment block, remarkable for its design AND its connection to super spy James Bond.
The strangely combative history of Wormwood Scrubs
Duelling! Prisons! Spies! It's London's strangely named Wormwood Scrubs.
Gradients and Greatness
One of the flattest, fastest lines in the country - Brunel's genius strikes again.
The Ballad of Reading Goal
Old Reading Prison. Or Reading Gaol. And it’s most famous prisoner? One Oscar Wilde, poet, playwright, genius and wit...
The Ancient Chilterns
Hillforts and history in this ancient woodland.
Didcot and the Oxford line
Class struggles and the humble Didcot Parkway.
Oxford
Oxford has always been a strategic centrepoint in Great Britain; control of Oxford meant influence over the whole country. And it was same when it came to the railways.
