Radley railway station

Radley
National Rail
General information
LocationRadley, Vale of White Horse
England
Grid referenceSU526988
ManagerGreat Western Railway
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeRAD[1]
ClassificationDfT category F1
History
Opened8 September 1873 [2]
Original company
Great Western Railway
Pre-groupingGWR
Post-groupingGWR
Passengers
2020/21Decrease 20,830
2021/22Increase 69,982
2022/23Increase 0.102 million
2023/24Decrease 91,052
2024/25Increase 0.132 million
Location
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Radley railway station serves the villages of Radley and Lower Radley, as well as the town of Abingdon, in Oxfordshire, England. It is on the Cherwell Valley Line between Culham and Oxford, 58 miles 35 chains (94 km) measured from London Paddington.[3]

History

The station seen in 1981

The station was formerly a junction station for a branch to the adjacent town of Abingdon. Opened on 8 September 1873[4] by the Great Western Railway, it replaced the original interchange, Abingdon Junction, opened in 1856.[5] The branch line to Abingdon was closed to passengers by the British Railways Board in 1963[6]. 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.[6] 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 the station on at least one occasion.[7]

Facilities

The station was renovated during 2008, with a new footbridge, shelters, a new car park and increased cycle storage.[8] The station also has a ticket machine and help points.[9]

Passenger volume

In recent years passenger traffic at Radley has grown rapidly. In the five years between 2005 and 2010, the number of passengers using the station increased by 38%.[10]

Passenger Volume at Radley[10]
2002–03 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23
Entries and exits 55,824 54,153 57,651 56,860 66,018 74,514 74,820 84,804 98,846 114,766 118,868 138,896 145,904 145,348 141,786 129,982 135,780 20,830 69,982 102,132

The statistics cover twelve month periods that start in April.

Services

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. 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.[11]

Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
Great Western Railway
Disused railways
Great Western Railway

References

  1. ↑ "Railway Codes". railwaycodes.org.uk. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
  2. ↑ "Oxford". Oxfordshire Weekly News. 17 September 1873. p. 5.
  3. ↑ Bridge, Mike, ed. (2017). TRACKatlas of Mainland Britain: A Comprehensive Geographic Atlas Showing the Rail Network of Great Britain (3rd ed.). Sheffield: Platform 5 Publishing Ltd. p. 30. ISBN 978 1909431 26 3.
  4. ↑ Hendry, R. Preston; Hendry, R. Powell (1992). Paddington to the Mersey. Oxford Publishing Company. p. 15. ISBN 9780860934424. OCLC 877729237.
  5. ↑ Quick 2023, p. 44, 382.
  6. 1 2 "The Abingdon branch". culhamticketoffice.co.uk. Retrieved 6 April 2026.
  7. ↑ "Trains, Plain-clothes Men and Royal Visitors". Oxford Mail. 11 August 2014. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  8. ↑ Walker, Chris (16 September 2009). "Station gains extra services". Didcot Herald. Oxford: Newsquest (Oxfordshire) Ltd: 7. ISSN 0962-8568. Retrieved 27 October 2009.
  9. ↑ "Radley train station | Departures, arrivals and tickets | GWR". www.gwr.com. Retrieved 6 April 2026.
  10. 1 2 "Estimates of station usage | ORR Data Portal". dataportal.orr.gov.uk. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
  11. ↑ Table 116 National Rail timetable, December 2023

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