Blackthorn railway station was a railway station serving the village of

Blackthorn, Oxfordshire Blackthorn is a village and civil parish in the Cherwell District of Oxfordshire about southeast of Bicester. The parish is bounded by the River Ray to the south, tributaries of the Ray to the east and north and field boundaries to the west. Th ...

, England. It was on what is now known as the Chiltern Main Line.

History

Blackthorn was one of six new stations that the

Great Western Railway The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran ...

provided when it opened the high-speed Bicester cut-off line between

Princes Risborough Princes Risborough () is a market town in Buckinghamshire, England, about south of Aylesbury and north west of High Wycombe. It lies at the foot of the Chiltern Hills, at the north end of a gap or pass through the Chilterns, the south end ...

and

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in 1910. The line became part of the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

British Rail British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most of the overground rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the Big Four British rai ...

ways closed Blackthorn station in 1953.

References

* * {{Closed stations Oxfordshire 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 1953