Kingham railway station
Kingham 
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| Location | |
| Place | Kingham |
| Local authority | West Oxfordshire |
| Grid reference | SP256227 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | KGM |
| Managed by | Great Western Railway |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | E |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.157 million |
| 2012/13 |
0.169 million |
| 2013/14 |
0.172 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.181 million |
| 2015/16 |
0.185 million |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 10 August 1855 |
| Original company | Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Great Western Railway |
| Post-grouping | Great Western Railway |
| 4 June 1853 | Evesham to Oxford line opened |
| 10 August 1855 |
Chipping Norton Railway opened Station opened as Chipping Norton Junction |
| 1 March 1862 | Bourton-on-the-Water Railway opened |
| 8 January 1906 | Flyover opened |
| 1 May 1909 | Station renamed Kingham |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Kingham from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Kingham railway station in Oxfordshire, England is between the Oxfordshire village of Kingham and the Gloucestershire village of Bledington, to which it is closer. It is also the closest station to the town of Chipping Norton.
The station is on the Cotswold Line and is served by Great Western Railway trains.
When the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway was extended from Evesham to Wolvercot Junction (north of Oxford) on 4 June 1853, there was no station between Adlestrop and Shipton. On 10 August 1855 a branch line to Chipping Norton was opened by the Chipping Norton Railway, and a station, known as Chipping Norton Junction, was opened at the junction of the branch with the OW&W; this branch was purchased by the OW&W in 1859. The OW&W amalgamated with other railways on 1 July 1860 to form the West Midland Railway; this in turn amalgamated with the Great Western Railway on 1 August 1863. In the meantime, a second branch line from Chipping Norton Junction, the Bourton-on-the-Water railway, had opened on 1 March 1862; that railway was absorbed by the GWR on 1 February 1874.
On 1 June 1881 the first section of the Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway was opened; this connected the Bourton-on-the-Water branch to the Cheltenham & Great Western Union line at Lansdown Junction, Cheltenham; and on 6 April 1887 a second section was opened, connecting the Chipping Norton branch to the Oxford and Rugby Railway at King's Sutton. The Great Western Railway took over the B&CDR on 1 July 1897, but for nearly twenty years, through trains running between Banbury and Cheltenham Spa St. James needed to reverse at Chipping Norton Junction.
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