Heyford serves the village of Lower Heyford in Oxfordshire and is a station on the Cherwell Valley Line between Kings Sutton and Tackley.
GWR 165 126 at Heyford departs bound for Didcot Parkway
Information
Type:
National Rail (Cherwell Valley Line)
Station code:
HYD
Opened:
1850
Platforms:
2
The station was opened in 1850 by the Oxford & Rugby Railway and later became part of the Great Western Railway empire. Nowadays it is managed by GWR too (well its modern day namesake anyway). Most trains that stop at the station are GWR services that run between Banbury and Didcot Parkway via Oxford. Chiltern Railways also stop at the station once a day.
The station is a typical minor unmanned station and has various bus shelters which have replaced the original limestone buildings [1], a footbridge and a car park. The station is next to Heyford Wharf on the Oxford Canal and one can step straight from the platform onto the towpath.
Heyford wharf next to the station
View from the road bridge
GWR 165 118 (still in FGW livery) departs on an Oxford service
Platform shelter
A Banbury bound service approaches the station
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Didcot to Banbury (Middleton Press, 2003) Fig. 85
