Radley railway station

Radley railway station serves the villages of Radley and Lower Radley and the town of Abingdon, in Oxfordshire, England.

Radley
A First Great Western train at Radley
Location	Radley, Vale of White Horse England
Grid reference	SU526988
Managed by	Great Western Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	RAD
Classification	DfT category F1
History
Opened	8 September 1873 [1]
Original company	Great Western Railway
Pre-grouping	GWR
Post-grouping	GWR
Passengers
2015/16	0.145 million
2016/17	0.145 million
2017/18	0.141 million
2018/19	0.129 million
2019/20	0.136 million
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

It is on the Cherwell Valley Line between Didcot Parkway and Banbury, 58 miles 35 chains (94.0 km) measured from London Paddington.

History

The station was built primarily for the boys of Radley College. It was formerly a junction station for a now-dismantled branch to the adjacent town of Abingdon. Opened in 1873[2] by the Great Western Railway, it replaced the original interchange, Abingdon Junction, opened in 1856. The branch line was extended north to terminate in a bay platform at the new station.

The station was renovated during 2008, with a new footbridge, shelters, a new car park and increased cycle storage.[3]

In recent years passenger traffic at Radley has grown rapidly. In the five years 2005–10 the number of passengers using the station increased by 38%.[4]

Services

The station sees an hourly service per weekday between Didcot Parkway and Oxford. Services operate half hourly throughout peak times. Some northbound trains a day are extended beyond Oxford to Banbury, with services operating to Banbury on a two hourly basis on Saturdays. With the January 2018 timetable change, services between Oxford and London Paddington were cut with these services now terminating and starting at Didcot Parkway; this is to allow Class 387 trains to operate stopping services on the line. On weekdays, there is just one train a day in each direction to and from London Paddington but some services in peak times also run to and from Reading.[5]

Routes

Railways around Oxford
to Banbury to Worcester to Bicester to Witney and Fairford Oxford Parkway Yarnton Oxford Road Halt Yarnton Loop City boundary Wolvercot Junction Wolvercot Platform Wolvercote Halt Oxford North Junction Port Meadow Halt Exchange sidings Sheepwash Channel Rewley Road Swing Bridge Oxford Oxford Rewley Road Osney Rail Bridge Gasworks Bridge Oxford Gas Works River Isis City boundary Oxford (Grandpont) Goods Hinksey Halt Millstream Junction Abingdon Road Halt Kennington Junction Radley Iffley Halt to Didcot Kennington Railway Bridge Littlemore Morris Cowley BMW Mini terminal Horspath Halt to Princes Risborough

References

1. "Oxford". Oxfordshire Weekly News. 17 September 1873. p. 5.
2. Hendry, R. Preston; Hendry, R. Powell (1992). Paddington to the Mersey. Oxford Publishing Company. p. 15. ISBN 9780860934424. OCLC 877729237.
3. Walker, Chris (16 September 2009). "Station gains extra services". Didcot Herald. Oxford: Newsquest (Oxfordshire) Ltd: 7. ISSN 0962-8568. Retrieved 27 October 2009.
4. Office of the Rail Regulator data: see infobox at head of article.
5. https://www.gwr.com/~/media/gwr/pdfs/timetables/2018/amended-may/v3/t08,-d-,web.pdf?la=en

External links

• Train times and station information for Radley railway station from National Rail