Culham train station
You can reach 20 stations directly from Culham on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Didcot Parkway, with 54 trains a day.
Direct trains from Culham
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Didcot Parkway | 54 | 36 | 0 |
| Oxford | 54 | 36 | 0 |
| Radley | 54 | 36 | 0 |
| Banbury | 22 | 13 | 0 |
| Heyford | 22 | 13 | 0 |
| King's Sutton | 22 | 13 | 0 |
| Appleford | 21 | 19 | 0 |
| Tackley | 11 | 6 | 0 |
| Ascott-under-Wychwood | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Charlbury | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Combe | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Evesham | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Finstock | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Hanborough | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Kingham | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Moreton-in-Marsh | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Shipton | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Honeybourne | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Pershore | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Worcester Shrub Hill | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Lines serving Culham
Culham 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 Culham station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Culham station on 758 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 143 paths on the Wednesday, 66 paths on the Saturday and 12 paths on the Sunday. 93 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 Culham station is
113,542 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,702nd busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Culham and Oxford than any other pair: 47,330 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 Culham. About one station in seventeen has none, so this is not unusual, but it is worth knowing before travelling.
Nearest other stations
- Appleford 1.0 miles
- Radley 2.2 miles
- Didcot Parkway 3.0 miles
- Cholsey 6.7 miles
- Oxford 7.0 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Culham, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Abingdon Junction · 1.4 miles
- Abingdon · 2.3 miles
- Steventon · 4.2 miles
- Littlemore · 4.5 miles
- Iffley Halt · 4.7 miles
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Facilities at Culham station
Culham is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.
Parking at Culham station
- Station Car Park 8 spaces
Cycle parking: 26 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 13 February 2026.
Getting to Culham station
Culham station is in South Oxfordshire, South East, and is run by Great Western Railway.
The nearest motorway junction is M40 J8A (Wheatley), 8.5 miles north-east.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Culham station elsewhere
- National Rail facilities, opening hours and live departures
- Realtime Trains every train calling today, to the minute
- Wikipedia the station's history
- OpenStreetMap the map data this page is built from
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