Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway

Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway
Overview
Type	Rural
System	Great Western Railway
Status	Historical
Locale	South East England East Midlands West Midlands
Termini	Millstream Junction, Oxford Birmingham Snow Hill, Birmingham
Operation
Opened	1850 (Oxford to Banbury) 1852 (Banbury to Birmingham)
Owner	Great Western Railway
Operator(s)	Great Western Railway
Technical
Number of tracks	1–2
Track gauge	Broad gauge and Mixed gauge

The Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway was a railway between Oxford and Birmingham in England.

During the 1845–46 session of Parliament, an Act of Parliament to build the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway, running from Oxford to Birmingham, was granted. The Act was passed on 3 August 1846, also sanctioning the Birmingham Extension Railway and the Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Dudley Railway. From 1846, the businessman Philip Henry Muntz (1811–1888) was chairman of the company.

The Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway line opened between Millstream Junction, in Oxford, and Banbury in 1850, initially as broad gauge. The rest of the railway line on to Birmingham was two-track mixed-gauge, opened in 1852. The line included a section through Leamington Spa. There would have been a junction between the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway and the Oxford and Rugby Railway at Fenny Compton but the section from Fenny Compton to Rugby was never completed.

Initially, there were nine stations north of Banbury. Seven more stations were added around Birmingham during the 19th century.

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