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Great Western Railway
The GWR had been opened as far as Reading on 30 March 1840. It first entered Oxfordshire when the line was extended to Steventon on 1 June 1840, and there were also stations at Pangbourne, Goring and Wallingford Road. The line was extended to Faringdon Road on 20 July 1840, and to a temporary station known as Wootton Bassett Road, situated where the line crossed Hay Lane between Swindon and Wootton Bassett, on 17 December 1840; there was only one intermediate station, at Shrivenham.

Further intermediate stations were opened at Didcot on 12 June 1844; at Uffington in 1864 and at Wantage Road. Wallingford Road was renamed Moulsford on 2 July 1866, and was replaced by the present Cholsey station (then known as Cholsey and Moulsford) on 29 February 1892.

Locomotive Depots
At the close of 1947 the GWR had depots in Oxfordshire at the following locations: Abingdon, Banbury, Didcot, Henley, Kingham, Oxford, Wallingford, Watlington. Of these, Banbury was in the Wolverhampton Division; Kingham was in the Worcester Division; whilst the others were all in the London Division.