The following is a transcription of an original typed manuscript dated 19/8/74 by Robert Avery, a former schoolmaster at Magdalen College School and resident of Wheatley. It is a set of recollections of the village railway, and includes mention of some of the station personnel and war time workings. Robert
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The Railway
‘There was only the train at one time, no buses, but by the 1960s everyone had a car and there were plenty of buses. The train was losing money. Contributed by Phyllis Shepherd (née Washington, born 1907), December 1999 ‘My father, Arthur Bunce, was a platelayer, a linesman on the
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