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Charlbury railway station is a railway station serving the town of Charlbury in Oxfordshire, England. This station and all trains serving it are operated by Great Western Railway. After almost 40 years as a single-platform station, the track through Charlbury station was redoubled with the recommissioning of a second platform on 6 June 2011 as part of the project to improve reliability and increase traffic capacity on the Cotswold Line.

Charlbury
General information
Location	Charlbury, West Oxfordshire England
Grid reference	SP352194
Managed by	Great Western Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	CBY
Classification	DfT category E
History
Original company	Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	GWR
Key dates
4 June 1853	Opened
29 November 1971	Line singled
6 June 2011	Line redoubled
Passengers
2016/17	0.295 million
2017/18	0.293 million
2018/19	0.286 million
2019/20	0.314 million
2020/21	55,812
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

History

The Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway opened the station in 1853. It is notable for the original station building, a wooden chalet-type structure in the Italianate architectural style of Isambard Kingdom Brunel;[1][2] together with the early station nameboard this is a Grade II listed building restored in 1979. Until 1970 the station had a goods shed, a 30 cwt crane and a 34-lever signal box.[3] The signal box was demolished when the line through the station was singled on 29 November 1971.[3]

Sir Peter Parker (1924–2002), the former Chairman of the British Railways Board, was a regular user of the station.[4]

With the completion of the first stage of the redoubling of the Cotswold Line from Ascott-under-Wychwood to a point east of Charlbury, the second platform, decommissioned in 1971, was reinstated and returned to service on 6 June 2011.[5]

2018 Improvement Works

Charlbury and Kingham are two of the stations on the Cotswold Line that had their platforms lengthened to accommodate longer GWR Class 802 units, which are nine carriages long — one carriage longer than the longest trains that previously used the station.

Facilities

Charlbury station is one of the only two-platform stations on the Cotswold Line to have step-free access to both platforms. This has been achieved by installing a long set of ramps from the lower car park to both platforms.

Charlbury is one of the only stations in the area that has a user-operated ticket machine. Kingham and Finstock, the main stations on the either side of Charlbury, do not have such facilities. However, passengers travelling from either of these stations when the ticket office is closed can board the service and buy a ticket on the train.

Services

Great Western Railway operate all services at Charlbury. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:

• 1 tph to London Paddington
• 1 tph to Worcester Foregate Street of which some continue to Great Malvern and Hereford

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Ascott-under-Wychwood (Shipton on Saturdays, Kingham on Sundays)		Great Western Railway Cotswold Line		Finstock (Hanborough on Saturdays and Sundays)

References

External links

• Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1053261)". National Heritage List for England.
• Station users' collaborative blog
• Station on 1947 OS Map

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