Yarnton railway station
| Yarnton | |
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| Location | |
| Place | Yarnton |
| Area | Cherwell |
| Coordinates | 51°47′57″N 1°18′49″W / 51.79917°N 1.31357°WCoordinates: 51°47′57″N 1°18′49″W / 51.79917°N 1.31357°W |
| Grid reference | SP473114 |
| Operations | |
| Original company | West Midland Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Great Western Railway |
| Post-grouping | Great Western Railway |
| Platforms | 3 |
| History | |
| 14 November 1861 | Station opens |
| 16 June 1962 | Station closes |
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| Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z |
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Yarnton Junction was a three-platform station serving the village of Yarnton, Oxfordshire. It was built in 1861 at the junction of the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway and Witney Railway, north of Oxford. British Railways closed the station to passengers in 1962 and it was demolished c. 1965.
A station was not provided at Yarnton either upon the opening of the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway (OW&WR) between Evesham and Wolvercot on 4 June 1853 or the opening of the Buckinghamshire Junction Railway (BJR) (known as the Yarnton Loop) on 1 April 1854. The 1-mile-49-chain (2.6 km) double-track BJR enabled through services between Euston and Wolverhampton Low Level via the OW&WR and the line to Bletchley, worked by the OW&WR as far as Handborough and also between Dudley and Wolverhampton via the South Staffordshire curve south of Tipton to run into Wolverhampton High Level. Handborough was the interchange for the new line where connecting trains ran to and from Oxford General.
On 13 November 1861, the Witney Railway opened a 8-mile-13-chain (13.1 km) branch line from the OW&WR at Yarnton to Witney. By this time, the OW&WR had merged with the Worcester and Hereford Railway and the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway to become, as of 14 June 1860, the West Midland Railway (WMR). It was leased by the Great Western Railway for 999 years from 30 May 1861 and was taken over by this company from 1 August 1863. According to Sir Charles Fox, the engineer engaged by the Witney Railway to survey their line, the OW&WR had given an undertaking to build a station at Yarnton and to stop their trains to connect with services on the branch line. It was proposed that all Witney services would terminate at Yarnton, where "a fine new inter-change station" would be built providing connections to Worcester, Oxford, Witney and Euston. However, after the WMR had settled its differences with the Great Western and agreed to be leased by it in 1861, the through service from Worcester to Euston had been withdrawn from September and there was no need for a grand station at Yarnton.
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