Shrivenham railway station was a station on the

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serving the village of

Shrivenham Shrivenham is a village and civil parish in the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England, about south-west of Faringdon. The village is close to the county boundary with Wiltshire and about east-northeast of Swindon. The 2011 Census recorde ...

in what was then part of

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History

The station was about south of the village, on the west side of the B4000 Station Road, south of the

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, and 5.6 miles along the line east of

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. The main station building was built in 1840. It was very small, faced with flint, had

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windows and a roof that projected in the form of a canopy. On 10 May 1848 six passengers were killed and 13 injured at Shrivenham when two porters pushed a horse-box and cattle van onto the main line to free a waggon turntable. The Exeter express struck them; the locomotive was undamaged but the side of the leading coach was torn out killing six passengers and injuring 13 more. On 15 January 1936 an express from Penzance, hauled by

GWR 6000 Class The Great Western Railway (GWR) 6000 Class or King Class is a class of 4-6-0 steam locomotives designed for express passenger work and introduced in 1927. They were the largest locomotives built by the GWR, apart from the unique Pacific ( ''The ...

4-6-0 A 4-6-0 steam locomotive, under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, has four leading wheels on two axles in a leading bogie and six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles with the abse ...

No. 6007 ''King William III'', collided with some coal wagons just outside the station that had become detached from an earlier train hauled by

GWR 2800 Class The Great Western Railway (GWR) 2800 Class is a class of Churchward-designed 2-8-0 steam locomotive. History The class was designed by George Jackson Churchward for heavy freight work. They were the first 2-8-0 locomotive class in Great B ...

2-8-0 Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, usually in a leading truck, eight powered and coupled driving wheels on four axles, and no trailing wheels. ...

No. 2802. Two people (the male driver and a female passenger) were killed and 10 injured. On 7 December 1964

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ways withdrew passenger services from Shrivenham and all other intermediate stations between

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and

. The station buildings were demolished in 1965 but remnants of the platforms survive.Burman, Peter & Stratton, Michael ''Conserving The Railway Heritage'' p. 82
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