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Charlbury railway station

Railway station in Oxfordshire, England

Summary

Railway station in Oxfordshire, England

Field	Value
name	Charlbury
symbol_location	gb
symbol	rail
image	2019 at Charlbury station - platform 2.JPG
borough	Charlbury, West Oxfordshire
country	England
grid_name	Grid reference
grid_position
manager	Great Western Railway
platforms	2
code	CBY
classification	DfT category E
original	Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway
pregroup	Great Western Railway
postgroup	GWR
years	4 June 1853
events	Opened
years1	29 November 1971
events1	Line singled
years2	6 June 2011
events2	Line redoubled
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footnotes	Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road
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Charlbury railway station is a railway station serving the town of Charlbury in Oxfordshire, England. This station and all trains serving it are operated by Great Western Railway. After almost 40 years as a single-platform station, the track through Charlbury station was redoubled with the recommissioning of a second platform on 6 June 2011 as part of the project to improve reliability and increase traffic capacity on the Cotswold Line.

History

Charlbury station on 9 January 2011, showing concrete sleepers newly laid for the restoration of double track and platform 2

The Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway opened the station in 1853. It is notable for the original station building, a wooden chalet-type structure in the Italianate architectural style of Isambard Kingdom Brunel; together with the early station nameboard this is a Grade II listed building restored in 1979. Until 1970 the station had a goods shed, a 30 cwt crane and a 34-lever signal box. The signal box was demolished when the line through the station was singled on 29 November 1971.

Sir Peter Parker (1924–2002), the former chairman of the British Railways Board, was a regular user of the station.

With the completion of the first stage of the redoubling of the Cotswold Line from to a point east of Charlbury, the second platform, decommissioned in 1971, was reinstated and returned to service on 6 June 2011.

2018 Improvement Works

Charlbury and Kingham are two of the stations on the Cotswold Line that had their platforms lengthened to accommodate longer GWR Class 802 units, which are nine carriages long — one carriage longer than the longest trains that previously used the station.

Facilities

Charlbury station is one of the only two-platform stations on the Cotswold Line to have step-free access to both platforms. This has been achieved by installing a long set of ramps from the lower car park to both platforms.

Charlbury is one of the only stations in the area that has a user-operated ticket machine. Kingham and Finstock, the main stations on the either side of Charlbury, do not have such facilities. However, passengers travelling from either of these stations when the ticket office is closed can board the service and buy a ticket on the train.

Services

Great Western Railway operate all services at Charlbury. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:

1 tph to London Paddington
1 tph to of which some continue to and

References

(1983). "The Railway Heritage of Britain". [[Michael Joseph (publisher).
Leigh, Chris. (1981). "GWR Country Stations". [[Ian Allan Publishing.
(2006). "British Railways Past and Present: Oxfordshire; A Second Selection (No. 55)". Past & Present Publishing Ltd.
George, Rob. (26 May 2018). "Line group call for improvements to be maintained". Evesham Observer.
(July 2011). "Charlbury redoubling complete". Ian Allan.

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