Ardley railway station was a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prep ...

serving the village of Ardley in Oxfordshire,

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. It was on what is now known as the

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, south of Ardley Tunnel.

History

Ardley was one of six new stations that the Great Western Railway provided when it opened the high-speed Bicester cut-off line between Princes Risborough and Kings Sutton in 1910. It was the last station under the jurisdiction of the London District of the GWR on this route. The line became part of the

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on nationalisation in 1948.It had sidings by 1951. British Railways closed Ardley station and sidings in 1963https://www.blhs.org.uk/index.php/head_villages/ardley, but in an odd oversight, Ardley continued to appear in the weekly special traffic notices of the London Midland Region right up until 1982, nineteen years after its closure.

The site today

Trains of the

pass the site.

References

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Station on navigable O.S. map.
Disused railway stations in Oxfordshire Former Great Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1910 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1963 {{SouthEastEngland-railstation-stub