Cropredy railway station

Cropredy
Site of Cropredy station in 2000.
General information
Location	Great Bourton, District of Cherwell England
Grid reference	SP465462
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Oxford and Rugby Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway Western Region of British Railways
Key dates
1854	Station opens
1956	Station closes

Cropredy railway station was formerly a railway station on the Great Western Railway at Great Bourton, Oxfordshire, serving the village of Cropredy.^[1][2] The station building was made of brick and wood,^[3] and there was a goods siding and goods shed from ^{[4][5][6][7][8]}

History

The Oxford and Rugby Railway had been built from Oxford northwards past Cropredy by 1852.^[2] It never reached Rugby, but at Fenny Compton it met the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway and thus became part of an important north–south main line.^[2]

The Great Western Railway took over the O&RR before it was completed, and opened Cropredy railway station in 1854 to serve the village of that name. The buildings were all wooden, situated on a brick platform in 1908. ^[3] British Railways closed the station in 1956.^[2] The station was demolished and few traces remain.^[2] The railway remains open as part of the Chiltern Main Line.^[2]

Routes

References

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 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 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.

External links

• Cropredy station on navigable 1946 O. S. map
• Cropredy station circa 1908

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