Disused railway lines and closed stations in Oxfordshire

114 miles of disused railway
62 closed stations
23 stations open today
24 named lost lines

Oxfordshire has 114 miles of disused railway and 62 closed stations, against 23 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 2.7 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway, with 19 miles of its route inside Oxfordshire.

See Oxfordshire’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 114 miles of lost railway in Oxfordshire break down as 86 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 17 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left, 6.5 miles with track still in place but no trains and 4.3 miles dismantled. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in Oxfordshire

24 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside Oxfordshire; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway	19
Bicester Military Railway	14
Fairford Branch	14
Wycombe Railway	7.9
Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway	6.5
Oxfordshire Ironstone Railway	5.4
Watlington and Princess Risborough Railway	4.9
Phoenix Trail	3.8
Great Central Railway London Extension	3.5
Banbury and Verney Junction Branch	3.5
Didcot Power Station	3.2
Faringdon Branch	3.0
Woodstock Branch	2.5
Banbury Branch	1.9
Abingdon Branch	1.8
Wolvercot Loop	1.1
Oxford Millstream Junction to Old Station	0.9
Stratford on Avon & Midland Juction Line	0.9
Faringdon Branch Railway	0.6
Chipping Norton Tunnel	0.4
Woodstock Curve	0.4
Beeches Light Railway	0.3
Didcot, Newbury & Southampton Railway Path	0.3
Wallingford Branch	0.3

Closed railway stations in Oxfordshire

All 62 closed and former stations in Oxfordshire, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in Oxfordshire

23 stations in Oxfordshire still have a train service. The busiest are Oxford (8.1 million a year), Didcot Parkway (2.9 million a year), Banbury (2.3 million a year), Bicester Village (1.9 million a year) and Henley-on-Thames (835,354 a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Warwickshire, Gloucestershire, Northamptonshire and Wiltshire.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. County boundaries are today’s ceremonial counties, with unitary authorities folded into the county they sit in, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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