I live in Wroughton and a few weeks ago I attended an exhibition put on by the Science Museum to advertise its intentions to build a new building at the Wroughton Airfield site at last.
I was advised at that time that they had the funding and I have recently learned that their plans are now with the council for planning permission.
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Apart from the fact that this means the railway items in their stock will be displayed, it crossed my mind that this would be a wonderful site for Coventry’s closed Electric Railway Museum people if they could do a deal.
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Being an ex-airfield there is a lot of space and I believe it should be able to put in a circle of track for demonstration running (taking power from generators).
As a semi-retired permanent way engineer, the track potential interests me greatly.
Clive Thompson, email
➜ I have wondered about this possibility for some time. It seems that open space is going begging at Wroughton, while less fashionable items of railway heritage like electric trains face scrapping – Editor.
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