Appleford train station

You can reach 20 stations directly from Appleford on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Culham, with 21 trains a day.

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20 direct destinations
2,379th busiest in Britain
Unstaffed
2 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Appleford

Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.

Destination	Weekday	Saturday
Culham	21	19
Didcot Parkway	21	19
Oxford	21	19
Radley	21	19
Banbury	5	3
Heyford	5	3
King's Sutton	5	3
Tackley	3	1
Ascott-under-Wychwood	2	0
Charlbury	2	0
Combe	2	0
Evesham	2	0
Finstock	2	0
Hanborough	2	0
Kingham	2	0
Moreton-in-Marsh	2	0
Shipton	2	0
Honeybourne	1	0
Pershore	1	0
Worcester Shrub Hill	1	0

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Lines serving Appleford

Appleford is on the Didcot and Chester Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Appleford station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Appleford station on 852 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 160 paths on the Wednesday, 71 paths on the Saturday and 12 paths on the Sunday. 106 of them run whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move. The busiest hour is 16:00 to 17:00 on the Tuesday, with 19 paths booked.

The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 12 October 2026: the darker the hour, the more paths, and a dot marks an hour with at least one path that runs regardless. Engineering trains, empty stock and light engines are not counted. Across Britain only about a fifth of booked freight paths run on a given day, so a booked path is a possibility rather than a promise; the freight statistics page explains how that is measured.

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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless

How busy Appleford station is

9,074 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 2,379th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Appleford and Oxford than any other pair: 3,394 a year. That is where passengers go, which is not always where the most trains go.

Source: Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage, 2024-25. Estimated from ticket sales.

Sundays

There is no Sunday service from Appleford. About one station in seventeen has none, so this is not unusual, but it is worth knowing before travelling.