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Didcot Railway Centre - Latest News (2845 words) |
 | It was one of the first vehicles to move to the fledgling Didcot Railway Centre in 1968 when it was acquired for preservation by the late John Mynors. |
| Children in Didcot and the surrounding area join many across the country with the opportunity to experience hands-on science thanks to grants of £7.3 million in the final round of funding from ReDiscover, the renewal fund for science centres and museums across the UK funded by the Millennium Commission and major charities. |
| Some 4 years ago Didcot Railway Centre was registered as a museum: this generous grant for the exhibition and learning centre provides the opportunity to both develop its working museum and to expand and refresh the presentation of science and engineering. |
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Didcot at AllExperts (917 words) |
| Didcot was then a sleepy rural Berkshire village with a population of 100 or so, and remained that way for hundreds of years, only occasionally cropping up in records. |
| The station was renamed Didcot Parkway in the 1980s and the old GWR provender stores were demolished (the provender pond was kept to maintain the water table) to become a car park so that the station would attract travellers from the surrounding area. |
| Didcot has been designated as one of the three major growth areas in Oxfordshire with the Ladygrove development set to double the number of dwellings in the town since construction began in the late 1980s to the North and East of the railway line on the former marshland. |
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