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00:00 Introduction
02:39 Drone footage
04:33 Around Trumpington
05:07 Drone footage
05:52 Telescopes on the tracks!
06:17 Lord's Bridge
08:06 Drone footage
08:40 South of Comberton
09:09 Drone footage
09:49 Remains and relics
11:09 Drone footage
11:35 Old North Road
13:05 Drone footage
13:55 Gamlingay
15:03 Potton
17:05 Sandy
19:29 Girtford Halt
20:28 Blunham
21:24 Willington
23:14 Bedford St. John's
24:23 Along the Marston Vale Line
27:00 Bletchley
27:47 Driver's Eye View
28:22 Drone footage
28:41 Old & New
30:20 Swanbourne
31:16 Drone footage
31:40 Winslow
33:16 Verney Junction
34:58 Claydon
35:59 HS2 meets EWR
37:00 Marsh Gibbon & Pounden
37:27 Drone footage
37:57 Launton
38:46 Drone footage
39:37 Bicester
40:43 All Halts to Islip
42:12 Islip
43:15 Oxford Road Halt
43:51 All Halts to Oxford
45:06 Rewley Road Swingbridge
45:23 Oxford Rewley Road
46:31 Why did the line close?
47:08 The Future?
49:32 Coda
CORRECTIONS
After departing Gamlingay, trains did not cross the road on the level, but actually passed beneath a road bridge.
Ermine Street, like Watling Street, and others, were AngloSaxon names given to Roman roads. We don't know the Roman names.