Ascott-under-Wychwood railway station

Ascott-under-Wychwood
Location
Place	Ascott-under-Wychwood
Local authority	West Oxfordshire
Grid reference	SP301188
Operations
Station code	AUW
Managed by	First Great Western
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2002/03 *	2,050
2004/05 *	2,534
2005/06 *	2,931
2006/07 *	1,769
2007/08 *	2,499
2008/09 *	2,860
2009/10 *	2,264
History
Opened 4 June 1853 (4 June 1853)
History
Original company	Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	GWR
4 June 1853	Station opens as Ascott
1 February 1880	Name changed to Ascott-Under-Wychwood
24 May 1965	Name changed to Ascott-Under-Wychwood Halt
5 May 1969	Name changed to Ascott-Under-Wychwood
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Ascott-under-Wychwood from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.

Ascott-under-Wychwood railway station is a railway station serving the village of Ascott-under-Wychwood in Oxfordshire, England. It is on the Cotswold Line. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by First Great Western.

To the west of the station is a level crossing, controlled by Ascott-under-Wychwood Signal Box, which also oversees the adjacent end of the double-tracked section of the Cotswold Line. Under proposals to extend the doubling of the route, the signal box was to be removed but budgetary constraints on resignalling led to that proposal being revised.

Ascott-under-Wychwood Signal Box

History

Opened by the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway, it became part of the West Midland Railway and then was absorbed by the Great Western Railway. The station then passed on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

The Reshaping of British Railways report proposed the closure of Ascott-under-Wychwood station, but the recommendation was not implemented.

When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Network SouthEast until the Privatisation of British Railways. It then came under the control of Thames Trains, but after a short period with First Great Western Link, it is now managed by First Great Western.

Services

Currently there is just one peak-hour train per day in each direction Mondays - Fridays.

References

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687. 
• Station on navigable O.S. map

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Charlbury		First Great Western Cotswold Line Mondays-Fridays only		Shipton