Blisworth
Towcester
Wappenham
Helmdon
Banbury
A modest beginning was
made with the Northampton and Banbury Junction Railway being
authorised in 1863. Things gathered a pace, and two years later an
Act authorising an extension westwards to Chipping Norton and
Blockley, Gloucestershire and in the next year, 1866, a further
extension which would have taken the line to Ross-on…