Ardley railway station

Ardley
The station site in 2001
General information
Location	Ardley, District of Cherwell England
Grid reference	SP538269
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Great Western Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
1 July 1910	Station opens as Ardley
1 August 1955	Station renamed Ardley Halt
7 January 1963	Station closes
Location

Ardley railway station was a railway station serving the village of Ardley in Oxfordshire, England. It was on what is now known as the Chiltern Main Line, south of Ardley Tunnel.

History

Ardley was one of six new stations that the Great Western Railway provided when it opened the high-speed Bicester cut-off line between Princes Risborough and Kings Sutton in 1910. ^[1] It was the last station under the jurisdiction of the London District of the GWR on this route. The line became part of the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.It had sidings by 1951. ^{[2] [3] [4]} British Railways closed Ardley station and sidings in 1963, ^[5] but in an odd oversight, Ardley continued to appear in the weekly special traffic notices of the London Midland Region right up until 1982, nineteen years after its closure.

The site today

Trains of the Chiltern Main Line pass the site.

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Aynho Park Line open, station closed		Great Western Railway Bicester "cut-off"		Bicester North Line and station open

References

1. "Bicester Local History Society".
2. British War Office GSGS 4127 Ordnance Survey Popular and New Popular Editions
3. https://maps.nls.uk/view/93505911 OS 1951
4. "Bicester Local History Society".
5. "Bicester Local History Society".

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN   978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC   60251199. OL   11956311M.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN   978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC   228266687.
• Station on navigable O.S. map.

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