Radley railway station

Radley
A First Great Western Class 180 at Radley in 2006
General information
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
2018/19	0.129 million
2019/20	0.136 million
2020/21	20,830
2021/22	69,982
2022/23	0.102 million
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

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

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 formerly a junction station for a 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 branch line to Abingdon was closed to passengers by the British Railways Board in 1963. The branch continued to be used by freight trains (notably for MG Cars) 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 during royal visits to Oxfordshire, in connection with which the train is known to have stopped at Radley station on at least one occasion.^[3] 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.^[4]

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%.^[5]

Services

v t e 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

All services at Radley are operated by Great Western Railway.

The typical off-peak service is one train per hour in each direction between Didcot Parkway and Oxford, with alternate trains continuing beyond Oxford to and from Banbury every two hours. Additional services call at the station during the peak hours.^[6]

On Sundays, the station is served by hourly intercity services between London Paddington and Oxford with some services continuing to and from Worcester Foregate Street, Great Malvern and Hereford.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Culham		Great Western Railway Cherwell Valley Line		Oxford
Disused railways
Abingdon Road Halt		Great Western Railway Cherwell Valley Line		Abingdon

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. "Trains, Plain-clothes Men and Royal Visitors". Oxford Mail. 11 August 2014. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
4. Walker, Chris (16 September 2009). "Station gains extra services". Didcot Herald. Oxford: Newsquest (Oxfordshire) Ltd: 7. ISSN 0962-8568. Retrieved 27 October 2009.
5. Office of the Rail Regulator data: see infobox at head of article.
6. Table 116 National Rail timetable, December 2023

External links

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

51.686°N 1.240°W / 51.686; -1.240