Sun May 09, 2021 10:31 am
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chevvron wrote:..Bletchley - Bicester section of the Cambridge to Oxford line ...
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the existence of the line was a significant factor for the choice in the '30s of Bletchley Park (serendipitously up for sale at the time) as the designated wartime evacuation site of the London-based GC&CS. Nearby Bletchley Junction not only meant good communications (people, freight, and - most importantly - trackside cables) N S E and W, but also plausible 'cover' for well-known faces eg academics seen catching trains at Cambridge and Oxford; those who recognised them at either might be expected to assume that they were going to the other. Analogously, those leaving London on the relevant Mainline might be assumed to be going further North. The 'GCHQ' designation was first used only as a wartime 'cover receiving address' for rail parcels and light freight arriving at the Junction; 'GC&CS' remained the official designator of the Department (with HQs in London) until 1946.
BP was first used, temporarily, as a contingency evacuation site during the Munich crisis of 1938.
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Back to aviation: On flights from Staverton to places like Old Warden, Henlow etc and beyond, I liked using Little Horwood as a useful Waypoint between Upper Heyford and Woburn, as a point to start or stop talking to Cranfield. When I got my first (hiker's, not aviation) GPS, it was one of the first WPs I entered into its database. Occasionally weather meant that I was flying (legally, of course ) not that much above 400' agl ..
(mere guide at) Jet Age Museum, Gloucestershire Airport
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TripAdvisor Excellence Award 2015
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http://www.jetagemuseum.org/
TripAdvisor Excellence Award 2015
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction ... gland.html