Bicester Military Railway

It links military depots at Piddington, Arncott and Graven Hill with the Oxford to Bicester Line.

[1] The Prime Minister Harold Wilson visited the BMR in mid-1965 prior to a government spending review.

[citation needed] The BMR is the main base for 275 Railway Squadron, a unit of the Royal Logistic Corps.

Every soldier in the unit is a tradesman, able to drive a locomotive, operate railway signals, shunt, and do permanent way work.

275 Railway Squadron's now defunct insignia is a cross section of flat bottom rail in a blue diamond.

A British Rail Class 58 heads a train into the transfer sidings of the Bicester Military Railway, October 2001
MoD No.01512 (ex-301) "Conductor", a Thomas Hill (Vanguard) 34t 0-4-0 diesel hydraulic locomotive with 255 hp Rolls-Royce C6SFL engine. On display at Long Marston Open Day in June 2009, from its home base of the Defence Storage & Distribution Centre, Bicester.
The 2-row carriage shed at the Bicester Military Railway, June 2007