Shrivenham Station One-Place Study

This study is about the closed railway station near Shrivenham in Oxfordshire. It was open for almost 125 years (from December 1840 until October 1965)

The railway line is still open, being part of the busy mainline from London Paddington to Bristol, South Wales and the West Country.

The site is situated about 3⁄4 mile (1.2 km) south of the village of Shrivenham and easy to see from the road bridge over the tracks, as a number of buildings remain. It is currently in Oxfordshire but was in Berkshire until the 1972 reorganisation of the English and Welsh counties (governed by the Local Government Act 1972).

This study will primarilly look at:

History of the railway station
The Railway Staff who worked there
Railway Accidents
The role of the station during wartime
What remains at the site after the station closed