Mortimer Railway Station

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Half hourly service in peak times each way between Reading, via Reading West, and Basingstoke via Bramley, nearest place for refreshments while you wait is the excellent Fox and Horn about 100 yards to the North West (think at one time called Station Arms).
The line had to skirt the west of the Wellington estate as its owner the Duke of Wellington, who lived at Stratfield Saye, did not like trains after one of his friends was killed by one.
www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/MOR/details.html
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortimer_railway_station
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Coordinates:   51°22'19"N   1°2'8"W

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  • The brick built station has a ticket office and waiting room (now closed) on the North (Reading bound) side of the double track. There is a foot bridge over to the South side with a very small brick shelter. Designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel it was used as the model for a station sold by Tri-ang_Railways trains. The station appears briefly in the 1974 Doctor Who serial Planet of the Spiders
  • Wellington also grumbled that trains would encourage working class people to travel. He was right. But when the Iron Duke tried out the Iron Road with Queen Victoria, he was impressed and later earnt lots of money by getting shares in railway companies.
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