Radley railway station

Radley railway station serves the villages of Radley and Lower Radley and the town of Abingdon, in Oxfordshire, England.

It is on the Cherwell Valley Line between Didcot Parkway and Banbury, 58 mi measured from London Paddington.

History
The station was formerly a junction station for a branch to the adjacent town of Abingdon. Opened in 1873 by the Great Western Railway, it replaced the original interchange, Abingdon Junction, opened in 1856. The branch line was extended north to terminate in a bay platform at the new station.

The branch line to Abingdon was closed to passengers by the British Railways Board in 1963. The branch continued to be used by freight trains (notably for MG Cars) and sporadic passenger excursions, the last of which took place in June 1984. It was also sometimes pressed into service as an overnight stabling point for the Royal Train during royal visits to Oxfordshire, in connection with which the train is known to have stopped at Radley station on at least one occasion. The branch track was lifted in the late 1980s.

The station was renovated during 2008, with a new footbridge, shelters, a new car park and increased cycle storage.

In recent years passenger traffic at Radley has grown rapidly. In the five years 2005–10 the number of passengers using the station increased by 38%.

Services
All services at Radley are operated by Great Western Railway.

The typical off-peak service is one train per hour in each direction between Didcot Parkway and Oxford, with alternate trains continuing beyond Oxford to and from Banbury every two hours. Additional services call at the station during the peak hours.

On Sundays, the station is served by hourly intercity services between London Paddington and Oxford with some services continuing to and from Worcester Foregate Street, Great Malvern and Hereford.