Charlbury railway station

Charlbury
Location
Place	Charlbury
Local authority	West Oxfordshire
Grid reference	SP352194
Operations
Station code	CBY
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 *	229,000
2004/05 *	236,749
2005/06 *	232,040
2006/07 *	249,781
2007/08 *	239,426
2008/09 *	238,918
2009/10 *	231,582
History
Original company	Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	GWR
4 June 1853	Opened
29 November 1971	Line singled
6 June 2011	Line redoubled
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Charlbury from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.
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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 First Great Western. 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 09 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;^[1][2] together with the early station nameboard this is a Grade II listed building restored in 1979. Until 1970, the station was provided with a goods shed, a 30 cwt crane and a 34-lever signal box.^[3] The signal box was demolished when the line through the station was singled on 29 November 1971.^[3]

Sir Peter Parker (1924-2002), the former chairman of the British Railways Board, was a regular user of the station.^{[citation needed]}

With the completion of the first stage of the redoubling of the Cotswold Line from Ascott-under-Wychwood to a point east of Charlbury, the reinstated second platform, decommissioned in 1971, entered into service on 6 June 2011.^[4]

References

1. ^ Biddle, Gordon; Nock, O. S. (1983). The Railway Heritage of Britain. London: Michael Joseph. ISBN 0-7181-2355-7. 
2. ^ Leigh, Chris (1981). GWR Country Stations. Shepperton: Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-1108-7. 
3. ^ ^{a b} Stretton, John (2006). British Railways Past and Present: Oxfordshire; A Second Selection (No. 55). Kettering, Northants: Past & Present Publishing Ltd. p. 33. ISBN 978-1-85895-203-1. 
4. ^ "Charlbury redoubling complete". Modern Railways (Ian Allan) 68 (754): 18. July 2011. 

External links

• Details from listed building database (254141) . Images of England. English Heritage.
• Station users' collaborative blog
• Station on 1947 OS Map

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Finstock Hanborough on Saturdays and Sundays		First Great Western Cotswold Line		Ascott-under-Wychwood Shipton on Saturdays, Kingham on Sundays

Coordinates: 51°52′19″N 1°29′24″W / 51.872°N 1.490°W / 51.872; -1.490