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Cholsey railway station
Railway station in Oxfordshire, England
Railway station in Oxfordshire, England
| Field | Value | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| name | Cholsey | ||
| symbol_location | gb | ||
| symbol | rail | ||
| image | Cholsey railway station, Oxfordshire (geograph 6944628).jpg | ||
| caption | View towards Didcot Parkway, following electrification (2019) | ||
| borough | Cholsey, District of South Oxfordshire | ||
| country | England | ||
| grid_name | Grid reference | ||
| grid_position | |||
| manager | Great Western Railway | ||
| platforms | 5 | ||
| code | CHO | ||
| classification | DfT category E | ||
| original | Great Western Railway | ||
| pregroup | Great Western Railway | ||
| postgroup | Great Western Railway | ||
| opened | 29 February 1892 | ||
| years | 1 June 1840 | ||
| events | GWR to opened | ||
| years1 | 29 February 1892 | ||
| events1 | Station opens as Cholsey and Moulsford | ||
| years2 | c1950 | ||
| events2 | Renamed Cholsey | ||
| <!--{{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2019/20 | passengers= 0.284 million}}-- |
| {{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2020/21 | passengers= 54,628}} |
| {{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2021/22 | passengers= 0.155 million}} |
| {{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2022/23 | passengers= 0.212 million}} |
| {{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2023/24 | passengers= 0.241 million}} |
| {{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2024/25 | passengers= 0.275 million}} |
| footnotes | Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Cholsey railway station (previously Cholsey & Moulsford) serves the village of Cholsey and the town of Wallingford, in south Oxfordshire, England. It is 48 mi down the line from and is situated between to the east and to the west.
The station is managed by Great Western Railway, which operates local services to , , and London Paddington. Cholsey is also the junction for the heritage railway services on the Cholsey and Wallingford Railway.
History
The station is on the original line of the Great Western Railway, which opened on 1 June 1840. The original station, opened with the line known as Wallingford Road, was several hundred yards further up the main line towards Goring & Streatley, just east of the point where the A329 road crosses the line (). Some of the original station buildings can still be seen at this point. On 2 July 1866 Wallingford Road station was renamed Moulsford and the branch to Wallingford was opened five days later; whilst the junction for this was at Moulsford station, the branch line track ran parallel to the main line for nearly 1 mi before curving away.
In 1892, during quadrupling of the main line, the junction for Wallingford was resited closer to the point of divergence and a new station was built there. On 29 February 1892, the new station opened and Moulsford station closed.
The Wallingford branch closed to passenger trains in 1959 and to freight trains in 1981. Part of it is now preserved as the Cholsey and Wallingford Railway.
Layout
The station frontage building is on two levels, with station offices in the lower (street) level and the London bound waiting room on the upper (platform) level. There are two small car parks, one at street level in front of the station building, the other at platform level to the south of the station.
The station has platforms on each of the fast and relief (slow) lines, although the platforms on the fast lines see little use. It also has a terminal platform used by trains on the Wallingford line. The platforms are located on an embankment, with access to street level by stairs and a pedestrian underpass.
- Platform 1 is only used when the relief lines are out of service. It is for down GWR services during engineering and maintenance work.
- Platform 2 is only used when the relief lines are out of service. It is for up GWR services during engineering and maintenance work.
- Platform 3 for down GWR local services towards Didcot Parkway and Oxford.
- Platform 4 for up GWR local services towards Reading and London Paddington.
- Platform 5 is a west-facing bay platform, currently used for Cholsey and Wallingford Railway heritage services to .
Services
National Rail services at Cholsey are operated by Great Western Railway using electric multiple units.
The typical off-peak is two trains per hour in each direction between and . On Sundays, the service is reduced to hourly in each direction.
Services on the volunteer-run Cholsey and Wallingford Railway run intermittently, usually on weekends and bank holidays.
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References
References
- MacDermot, E.T.. (1927). "History of the Great Western Railway". [[Great Western Railway]].
- MacDermot, E.T.. (1931). "History of the Great Western Railway". [[Great Western Railway]].
- (March 2002). "Reading to Didcot". Middleton Press.
- (18 May 2025). "Train Times". Great Western Railway.
- "Train Timetables". [[Cholsey and Wallingford Railway]].
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