Chipping Campden railway station

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Chipping Campden
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Station site in 2006.
General information
Location Chipping Campden, Cotswold
England
Coordinates 52°03′18″N1°45′19″W / 52.0550°N 1.7552°W / 52.0550; -1.7552 Coordinates: 52°03′18″N1°45′19″W / 52.0550°N 1.7552°W / 52.0550; -1.7552
Grid reference SP168397
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway
Pre-grouping Great Western Railway
Post-groupingGreat Western Railway
Key dates
4 June 1853Opened as Mickleton
?Renamed Campden
February 1952Renamed Chipping Campden
3 January 1966 (1966-01-03)Closed

Chipping Campden, or for most of its existence simply Campden, is a closed railway station on the Cotswold Line, which served the town of Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire, England.

Contents

The Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway was opened in stages. The section between Evesham and Wolvercot Junction, to the north of Oxford, was opened on 4 June 1853; [1] the station at Campden was opened at the same time, and was originally named Mickleton. [2] It was later renamed Campden, [3] and in February 1952 became Chipping Campden. [4] It closed on 3 January 1966. [5]

Reopening proposals

There are proposals for a new station at Chipping Campden. [6]

Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Mickleton Halt
Line open, station closed
  Great Western Railway
Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway
  Blockley
Line open, station closed

Notes

  1. MacDermot, E.T. (1927). History of the Great Western Railway, vol. I: 1833-1863. Paddington: Great Western Railway. pp. 498, 867.
  2. Butt 1995 , p. 158
  3. Butt 1995 , pp. 158, 52
  4. Butt 1995 , pp. 52, 60
  5. Butt 1995 , p. 60
  6. "8.6 Chipping Campden". Local Plan Reg. 18 Consultation: Development Strategy and Site Allocations January 2015. Cotswold Council. Retrieved 2 July 2020.

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