Kingham railway station

at , Kingham , OX7 6 United Kingdom

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Description

Kingham railway station in Oxfordshire, England is between the Oxfordshire village of Kingham and the Gloucestershire village of Bledington, to which it is closer. It is also the closest station to the town of Chipping Norton.The station is on the Cotswold Line and is served by Great Western Railway trains.HistoryWhen the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway was extended from to Wolvercot Junction on 4 June 1853, there was no station between and. On 10 August 1855 a branch line to was opened by the Chipping Norton Railway, and a station, known as Chipping Norton Junction, was opened at the junction of the branch with the OW&W; this branch was purchased by the OW&W in 1859. The OW&W amalgamated with other railways on 1 July 1860 to form the West Midland Railway; this in turn amalgamated with the Great Western Railway on 1 August 1863. In the meantime, a second branch line from Chipping Norton Junction, the Bourton-on-the-Water railway, had opened on 1 March 1862; that railway was absorbed by the GWR on 1 February 1874.On 1 June 1881 the first section of the Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway was opened; this connected the branch to the Cheltenham & Great Western Union line at Lansdown Junction, Cheltenham; and on 6 April 1887 a second section was opened, connecting the Chipping Norton branch to the Oxford and Rugby Railway at. The Great Western Railway took over the B&CDR on 1 July 1897, but for nearly twenty years, through trains running between and needed to reverse at Chipping Norton Junction.

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Summary

Kingham railway station is Salford based place and this enity listed in Train Station category. OX7 6. Contact phone number of Kingham railway station: 08457 000 125