Abingdon railway station

Infobox UK station
name = Abingdon
code =


manager = Great Western Railway
locale = Abingdon
borough = Vale of White Horse
usage0405 =
usage0506 =
platforms = 0
years = 2 June 1856
events = Station opens
years1 = 9 September 1963
events1 = Station closes

Abingdon railway station was a station serving the town of Abingdon in the English county of Oxfordshire.

History

The station was built by the Abingdon Railway, although this was amalgamated into the Great Western Railway before its opening on 2 June 1856. The line passed on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, and was then closed to passengers by the British Railways Board in 1963. However the branch was used by freight, notably MG Cars, and the occasional passenger excursion, the last of which took place in 1984.

The branch track was lifted in the late 1980s.

Routes

rail line
previous = Abingdon Junction
"Station closed; Line open"
next =
route = Abingdon Railway

Great Western Railway
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*cite book|author=R.V.J.Butt, |title= The Directory of Railway Stations |publisher=Patrick Stephens Ltd
year=1995 ISBN 1 85260 508 1

*cite book|author=A. Jowett, |title= Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas |publisher=Atlantic Publishing |year=2000 ISBN 0 906899 99 0

*Sub Brit site [http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/a/abingdon/index.shtml]

* [http://www.abingdonbranch.co.uk GWR Abingdon Branch]

*Signal Box Diagram [http://www.greatwestern.org.uk/stat_1.htm#abing]