Alvescot railway station

Alvescot
General information
Location	Oxfordshire
Owned by	Great Western Railway
Line(s)	East Gloucestershire Railway
Platforms	1
Key dates
15 January 1873	Station opens
18 June 1962	Station closes

Alvescot railway station was a railway station serving the village of Alvescot in Oxfordshire, England. It was located on the East Gloucestershire Railway which ran from Oxford to Fairford.

History

Opened by the East Gloucestershire Railway, and run from the outset by the Great Western Railway, the station then passed on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. It was then closed by the British Railways Board.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Carterton		Great Western Railway East Gloucestershire Railway		Kelmscott and Langford Halt

The site today

The coal yard open when the railway was running still functions, but the rest of the site is a small light industrial area and all the buildings have gone.

References

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
• Chris Leigh , (1981). GWR Country Stations. Ian Allan Ltd.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) ISBN 0-7110- 1108-7
• Pictures of the station [1]