Didcot Railway Centre and Didcot Coaling Stage blue plaque

This blue commemorative plaque records: Didcot Coaling Stage The Great Western Railway built a locomotive depot at Didcot when the branch line to Oxford opened in 1932, remained in use throughout the steam age and now form the nucleus of the living history museum at Didcot Railway Centre. The Coal Stage, Listed Grade II, is the only one in the UK used for its original purpose of coaling steam engines. Recorded plaque organisation: Great Western Railway.

The Didcot Coaling Stage, listed Grade II, is a unique structure as it remains the sole example in the United Kingdom still used for its original function of supplying coal to steam locomotives, serving now at the Didcot Railway Centre as part of a living history museum dedicated to preserving railway heritage.