Banbury railway station

Banbury
Location
Place	Banbury
Local authority	District of Cherwell
Grid reference	SP462404
Operations
Station code	BAN
Managed by	Chiltern Railways
Number of platforms	4
DfT category	C1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2011/12	1.943 million
– Interchange	0.317 million
2012/13	2.055 million
– Interchange	0.355 million
2013/14	2.181 million
– Interchange	0.350 million
2014/15	2.337 million
– Interchange	0.362 million
2015/16	2.430 million
– Interchange	0.282 million
History
Original company	Great Western Railway
Pre-grouping	GWR
Post-grouping	GWR
2 September 1850	Opened as Banbury
after July 1938	Renamed Banbury General
1958	Rebuilt by BR
after 1961	Renamed Banbury
National Rail – UK railway stations
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Banbury from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

[ ] Railway lines which served Banbury

Great Western Railway(present Chiltern Main Line) Oxfordshire Ironstone Railway(now closed) GCR link from Woodford Halse(now closed) Banbury Bridge Street(now Banbury Station) Banbury Merton Street(now closed) Banbury to Verney Junction Branch Line(now closed) Kings Sutton GWR Banbury & Cheltenham Direct Railway(now closed) Aynho Junction GWR Cherwell Valley Line(Oxford Canal Line) Great Western Railway(Chiltern Main Line)

Banbury railway station serves the town of Banbury in Oxfordshire, England. The station is operated by Chiltern Railways, on the Chiltern Main Line, and has four platforms in use.

Banbury Bridge Street station opened on 2 September 1850, some four months after the Buckinghamshire Railway (L&NWR) opened its Banbury Merton Street terminus. When meadows and the recently disused racecourse at Grimsbury were sold to the Great Western Railway (GWR) in about 1850, the owner also sold the other part of his land, north of the Middleton road to the Banbury Freehold Land Society, which was financially backed by Cobb's Bank, on which to build middle-class houses, but development was slow at the time and some plots were never built upon.

The station was going to be part of the GWR's Oxford and Rugby Railway, before the problems with changing gauges at Rugby prevented it. The 24 miles (39 km) single track extension from Oxford to Banbury did open, and at first Banbury was just a single platform through station (works were continuing to Birmingham) however the popularity of the line meant that the route was soon double tracked barely two years later, and the station was given an extra platform in an up and down configuration. By 1882, an extra Up Goods Line had been laid on the East side of the Station [outside the Train Shed]; together with a Transfer Line to the LNWR Route. In 1903, Banbury had south and north bays "cut" into the Up Platform; along with an extra bay on the downside at the North end. There was a Down Goods Loop north of the Station; all this to cope with traffic from the Great Central Main Line, which joined at Banbury North Junction in 1900. The inclusion of terminating bays and goods loops reflected Banbury's increasing strategic position in the National network. In 1904 the refreshment rooms were rebuilt to the designs of Percy Emerson Culverhouse. The Station was rebuilt into its present form in 1958.

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