Oxford station is a stop on the Cotswold Line in Oxfordshire between Hanborough and Didcot Parkway. It is also on the Cherwell Valley Line between Tackley and Radley and the terminus of services from London Paddington and Marylebone.
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| GWR 800 302 departs the station |
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| Type: | National Rail (Cotswold & Cherwell Valley Lines plus others) |
| Station code: | OXF |
| Opened: | 1852 |
| Platforms: | 4 |
The first Oxford station was opened by the Great Western Railway in 1844. This was followed by a station opened by the Oxford & Rugby Railway (though owned by the GWR by the time it opened) in 1852 [1] on it's line from Oxford to Banbury, this replaced the original GWR station. For a time the station was known as Oxford General to distinguish it from Oxford Rewley Road.
The station was rebuilt in 1890s with new wooden buildings which lasted until the early 1970s [2] when the buildings were replaced by standard CLASP structures [3]. A new main building and footbridge was built in 1990. The station has two through platforms and two bays.
Oxford is managed by GWR and served by them as well as Chiltern Railways and Cross Country.
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| A surviving pre-GWR First Great Western sign |
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| View down the bay platforms |
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| Chiltern 165 002 arrives at Oxford |
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| View down the platform showing the footbridge |
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| GWR 802 102 prepares to depart |
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Didcot to Banbury (Middleton Press, 2003) p. 3
[2] Ibid. Fig. 46
[3] Chris Heaps, BR Diary 1968-1977 (Ian Allan, 1988) p. 60
