Ascott-under-Wychwood railway station

Ascott-under-Wychwood
View towards Oxford, prior to redoubling works in 2011
Location
Place	Ascott-under-Wychwood
Local authority	West Oxfordshire
Grid reference	SP301188
Operations
Station code	AUW
Managed by	Great Western Railway
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2010/11	1,658
2011/12	2,702
2012/13	2,484
2013/14	2,856
2014/15	4,026
History
Key dates	Opened 4 June 1853
Original company	Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	GWR
4 June 1853	Station opened as Ascott
1 February 1880	Name changed to Ascott-Under-Wychwood
24 May 1965	Name changed to Ascott-Under-Wychwood Halt
5 May 1969	Name changed to Ascott-Under-Wychwood
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Ascott-under-Wychwood from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Ascott-under-Wychwood railway station is a railway station serving the village of Ascott-under-Wychwood in Oxfordshire, England. It is on the Cotswold Line. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by Great Western Railway.

West of the station is a level crossing, controlled by Ascott-under-Wychwood Signal Box, which also oversees the adjacent end of the double-tracked section of the Cotswold Line. Under proposals to extend the doubling of the route, the signal box was to be removed but budgetary constraints on resignalling led to that proposal being revised.

Ascott-under-Wychwood Signal Box

History

Opened by the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway, it became part of the West Midland Railway and then was absorbed by the Great Western Railway. The station then passed on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

The Reshaping of British Railways report proposed the closure of Ascott-under-Wychwood station,^[1] but the recommendation was not implemented.

When British Rail introduced Sectorisation in the 1980s, the station was served by Network SouthEast until the Privatisation of British Rail. It was then managed by Thames Trains, but after a short period with First Great Western Link, it is now managed by Great Western Railway.

Services

Currently there is only one peak-hour train per day in each direction Mondays – Fridays, and no regular Saturday or Sunday service. A limited Saturday service operates in the weeks running up to Christmas.

References

1. Keenor, Garry. "The Reshaping of British Railways – Part 1: Report". The Railways Archive. Retrieved 25 September 2010.

• Butt, R. V. J. (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 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687.

External links

• Station on navigable O.S. map

Coordinates: 51°52′01″N 1°33′50″W / 51.867°N 1.564°W