Radley railway station
Radley  | |||||
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 A First Great Western Class 180 at Radley in 2006 | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Radley, Vale of White Horse England | ||||
| Grid reference | SU526988 | ||||
| Managed by | Great Western Railway | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | RAD | ||||
| Classification | DfT category F1 | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 8 September 1873 [1] | ||||
| Original company | Great Western Railway | ||||
| Pre-grouping | GWR | ||||
| Post-grouping | GWR | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2017/18 |  0.141 million | ||||
| 2018/19 | 0.129 million | ||||
| 2019/20 |  0.136 million | ||||
| 2020/21 | 20,830 | ||||
| 2021/22 | 69,982 | ||||
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Radley railway station serves the villages of Radley and Lower Radley and the town of Abingdon, in Oxfordshire, England.
It is on the Cherwell Valley Line between Didcot Parkway and Banbury, 58 miles 35 chains (94.0 km) measured from London Paddington.
History
The station was formerly a junction station for a branch to the adjacent town of Abingdon. Opened in 1873[2] by the Great Western Railway, it replaced the original interchange, Abingdon Junction, opened in 1856. The branch line was extended north to terminate in a bay platform at the new station.
The branch line to Abingdon was closed to passengers by the British Railways Board in 1963. The branch continued to be used by freight trains (notably for MG Cars) and sporadic passenger excursions, the last of which took place in June 1984. It was also sometimes pressed into service as an overnight stabling point for the Royal Train during royal visits to Oxfordshire, in connection with which the train is known to have stopped at Radley station on at least one occasion.[3] The branch track was lifted in the late 1980s.
The station was renovated during 2008, with a new footbridge, shelters, a new car park and increased cycle storage.[4]
In recent years passenger traffic at Radley has grown rapidly. In the five years 2005–10 the number of passengers using the station increased by 38%.[5]
Services
The station sees an hourly service per weekday between Didcot Parkway and Oxford. Services operate half hourly throughout peak times. Some northbound trains a day are extended beyond Oxford to Banbury, with services operating to Banbury on a two hourly basis on Saturdays. With the January 2018 timetable change, services between Oxford and London Paddington were cut with these services now terminating and starting at Didcot Parkway; this is to allow Class 387 trains to operate stopping services on the line. On weekdays, there is just one train a day in each direction to and from London Paddington but some services in peak times also run to and from Reading.[6]
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| Preceding station |  National Rail
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Following station | ||
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| Oxford | Great Western Railway Cherwell Valley Line |
Culham | ||
| Disused railways | ||||
| Abingdon Road Halt | Great Western Railway Cherwell Valley Line |
Abingdon | ||
References
- ^ "Oxford". Oxfordshire Weekly News. 17 September 1873. p. 5.
- ^ Hendry, R. Preston; Hendry, R. Powell (1992). Paddington to the Mersey. Oxford Publishing Company. p. 15. ISBN 9780860934424. OCLC 877729237.
- ^ "Trains, Plain-clothes Men and Royal Visitors". Oxford Mail. 11 August 2014. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
- ^ Walker, Chris (16 September 2009). "Station gains extra services". Didcot Herald. Oxford: Newsquest (Oxfordshire) Ltd: 7. ISSN 0962-8568. Retrieved 27 October 2009.
- ^ Office of the Rail Regulator data: see infobox at head of article.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 June 2018. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
External links
- Train times and station information for Radley railway station from National Rail
51°41′10″N 1°14′24″W / 51.686°N 1.240°W
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