Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Ashendon Junction in Buckinghamshire, England, was a major mainline railway junction where, from July 1910, the Great Western Railway's (GWR) London-Birmingham direct route diverged from the Great Central Railway's (GCR) main London-Sheffield route.The junction was where what is now the Chiltern Main Line (formerly the \"Birmingham Direct Line\" aka \"Bicester cut-off\" of the GWR), inaugurated in 1910, joined the post-1906 \"Alternative Route\" alignment of the GCR. It stood 4 miles (6.4 km) north-west of today's Haddenham and Thame Parkway. It was a high-speed flying junction carrying southbound GWR trains from Birmingham on an embankment with a girder bridge over the top of northbound Great Central trains travelling from London Marylebone on to the 90 mph five-mile link to Grendon Underwood Junction, where they rejoined the original Great Central Main Line towards Brackley and beyond to the East Midlands and North."@en }
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- Ashendon_Junction abstract "Ashendon Junction in Buckinghamshire, England, was a major mainline railway junction where, from July 1910, the Great Western Railway's (GWR) London-Birmingham direct route diverged from the Great Central Railway's (GCR) main London-Sheffield route.The junction was where what is now the Chiltern Main Line (formerly the \"Birmingham Direct Line\" aka \"Bicester cut-off\" of the GWR), inaugurated in 1910, joined the post-1906 \"Alternative Route\" alignment of the GCR. It stood 4 miles (6.4 km) north-west of today's Haddenham and Thame Parkway. It was a high-speed flying junction carrying southbound GWR trains from Birmingham on an embankment with a girder bridge over the top of northbound Great Central trains travelling from London Marylebone on to the 90 mph five-mile link to Grendon Underwood Junction, where they rejoined the original Great Central Main Line towards Brackley and beyond to the East Midlands and North.".