Sheepwash Channel Railway Bridge

There is a bridge here which takes a railway over the canal.
| Sheepwash Channel Junction | ¼ furlongs | |
| Sheepwash Channel Footbridge | ¼ furlongs | |
| Roger Dudman Way Footbridge | a few yards | |
| Roger Dudman Way Bridge | a few yards | |
| Sheepwash Channel Railway Bridge | ||
| Railway Swing Bridge (Castle Mill Stream) | a few yards | |
| Rewley Road Bridge | ¼ furlongs | |
| Castle Mill Stream Junction | ½ furlongs | |
| Isis Lock No 46 | ¾ furlongs | |
| Isis Lock Junction | ¾ furlongs | |
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Sheepwash Channel Railway Bridge is a railway bridge over Sheepwash Channel in west Oxford, England, just north of Oxford railway station. To the north are Cripley Meadow and Fiddler's Island. To the south are Osney Island and the Botley Road.
The bridge is close to Rewley Road Swing Bridge just to the east, an older and now disused swing bridge for the former Buckinghamshire Railway line of London and North Western Railway that used to serve the Oxford Rewley Road railway station. It is also close to Rewley Road Bridge to the east. Sheepwash channel links the River Thames with the Oxford Canal via Castle Mill Stream and Isis Lock.


![Sheepwash Cut, Oxford, 1983. The short branch channel off the main Thames, Sheepwash Cut, leads under the railway to give access to the southern end of the Oxford Canal; after that it runs unnavigably south past the castle to rejoin the river further down. Beyond the low railway bridges can be seen the even lower swing bridge that used to give access to the Rewley Road goods yard; at this stage it was rarely closed, though in January 1983 I did photograph it in that position ([[8079191]]). See [[3389493]] for a recent image of the swing bridge. by Christopher Hilton – 1983](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/03/63/22/3632224_27ac8d51_120x120.jpg)
![Northbound train at Oxford Station, early 1983. From a reel of film taken January-February 1983; no more precise dating is possible. At this time Class 50 diesels like this were the default motive power for long-distance express trains through Oxford.An image taken from approximately the same location nearly 35 years later is at [[5398472]].The watercourse the train is about to cross is Sheepwash Channel or Sheepwash Cut, a short navigable back-channel that splits off the Thames behind the photographer and provides access to the Oxford Canal before continuing through the city as the unnavigable Castle Mill Stream. by Christopher Hilton – 1983](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/08/13/35/8133542_f14f098f_120x120.jpg)















![Oxford - LNWR Swing Bridge. For an early picture on this site see [[95063]]. The London & North Western Railway entered its Rewley Road station in Oxford over a hand operated swing bridge which still stands amongst recent housing developments. by Mr Ignavy – 15 July 2013](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/03/55/81/3558153_55c5a3e2_120x120.jpg)


![Canal path under road and railway north of Oxford Station. A Voyager diesel multiple unit forms a Cross Country service north. There is an OS benchmark [[2331650]] on the wall on the left side of the path where the vegetation has been cleared by Roger Templeman – 18 December 2012](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/03/26/43/3264347_3f2a2642_120x120.jpg)







![Railway swing-bridge over Sheepwash Cut, closed: 1982. At this time, a swing-bridge enabled a railway line to cross the navigable Sheepwash Cut (also known as Sheepwash Channel), giving railway access to sidings and the former London & North-Western Railway station. The bridge was very seldom moved by this time. It was decommissioned when the land to the east of the railway line, north and south of the river channel, was developed for housing. A road bridge now crosses the channel a little to the east but as of 2025 the swing-bridge is still there, swung permanently out of the way of passing boats. An image from 2013 shows it in its open position: [[3389493]]. by Christopher Hilton – 29 November 1982](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/08/08/42/8084229_9c66b996_120x120.jpg)