Radley railway station serves the villages of

Radley Radley is a village and civil parish about northeast of the centre of Abingdon, Oxfordshire. The parish includes the hamlet of Lower Radley on the River Thames. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfor ...

and Lower Radley and the town of Abingdon, in Oxfordshire,

England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...

. It is on the Cherwell Valley Line between and , measured from .

History

The station was formerly a junction station for a branch to the adjacent town of Abingdon. Opened in 1873 by the Great Western Railway, it replaced the original interchange, , opened in 1856. The branch line was extended north to terminate in a bay platform at the new station. The branch line to Abingdon was closed to passengers by the

British Railways Board British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, ...

in 1963. The branch continued to be used by freight trains (notably for

MG Cars MG is a British automotive marque founded by Cecil Kimber in the 1920s, and M.G. Car Company Limited was the British sports car manufacturer that made the marque famous. Best known for its open two-seater sports cars, MG also produced salo ...

) and sporadic passenger excursions, the last of which took place in June 1984. It was also sometimes pressed into service as an overnight stabling point for the

Royal Train A royal train is a set of railway carriages dedicated for the use of the monarch or other members of a royal family. Most monarchies with a railway system employ a set of royal carriages. Australia The various government railway operators of ...

during royal visits to Oxfordshire, in connection with which the train is known to have stopped at station on at least one occasion. The branch track was lifted in the late 1980s. The station was renovated during 2008, with a new footbridge, shelters, a new car park and increased cycle storage. 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%.

Services

The station sees an hourly service per weekday between

Didcot Parkway Didcot Parkway is a railway station serving the town of Didcot in Oxfordshire, England. The station was opened as Didcot on 12 June 1844 and renamed Didcot Parkway on 29 July 1985 by British Rail to reflect its role as a park and ride railhead. ...

and

Oxford Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the ...

. Services operate half hourly throughout peak times. Some northbound trains a day are extended beyond Oxford to , with services operating to Banbury on a two hourly basis on Saturdays. With the January 2018 timetable change, services between Oxford and

London Paddington Paddington, also known as London Paddington, is a Central London railway terminus and London Underground station complex, located on Praed Street in the Paddington area. The site has been the London terminus of services provided by the Great ...

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 Reading is the process of taking in the sense or meaning of letters, symbols, etc., especially by sight or touch. For educators and researchers, reading is a multifaceted process involving such areas as word recognition, orthography (spelling ...

Routes

References

External links

Railway stations in Oxfordshire DfT Category F1 stations Former Great Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1873 Railway stations served by Great Western Railway {{SouthEastEngland-railstation-stub