Culham railway station

Notes
	Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Culham
Culham
General information
Location	Culham, South Oxfordshire; England
Grid reference	SU529953
Managed by	Great Western Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	CUM
Classification	DfT category F1
History
Opened	1844
Original company	Great Western Railway
Pre-grouping	GWR
Post-grouping	GWR
Passengers
2019/20	107,072
2020/21	21,586
2021/22	60,142
2022/23	80,752
2023/24	72,232
Notes
Notes
	Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Culham railway station serves the village of Culham in Oxfordshire, England. It is on the Cherwell Valley Line between Didcot Parkway and Banbury, 56 miles 17 chains (90.5 km) from London Paddington. It is served by local train services provided by Great Western Railway.

The station is just off the A415 road, between the villages of Culham and Clifton Hampden.

It is close to Culham Science Centre, an 80-hectare (200-acre) scientific research site housing two nuclear fusion experiments: JET and MAST. The Science Centre was built on the site of RNAS Culham (HMS Hornbill), a World War II airfield.

History

The Great Western Railway opened the station on the Didcot – Oxford line as Abingdon Road on 12 June 1844. Its name was changed by the GWR to Culham, on 2 June 1856, on the opening of the branch from Abingdon Junction to Abingdon.

The original station building (no longer in railway use) is in the Tudor Revival architecture of Isambard Kingdom Brunel^[1] and is a Grade II* listed building.

The name Abingdon Road was later re-used for an entirely different station about 5.5 miles (9 km) to the north, Abingdon Road Halt, opened in 1908.

In some recent years passenger numbers using Culham have changed rapidly. The total increased 67% in the three years 2006–09, but then decreased slightly in 2010.^[2]

Services

All services at Culham 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.^[3]

No services call at the station on Sundays.

Preceding station		Following station
Appleford	Great Western Railway Cherwell Valley Line Monday-Saturday only	Radley
Disused railways
Appleford	Great Western Railway Cherwell Valley Line	Abingdon Junction

References

^ Biddle, Gordon; Nock, O.S. (1983). The Railway Heritage of Britain. Michael Joseph. ISBN 0-7181-2355-7.
^ Office of the Rail Regulator data: see infobox at head of article.
^ Table 116 National Rail timetable, December 2023

External links

Train times and station information for Culham railway station from National Rail

Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1059789)". National Heritage List for England.

51°39′14″N 1°14′13″W / 51.654°N 1.237°W / 51.654; -1.237

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[1] Biddle, Gordon; Nock, O.S. (1983). The Railway Heritage of Britain. Michael Joseph. ISBN 0-7181-2355-7.

[2] Office of the Rail Regulator data: see infobox at head of article.

[3] Table 116 National Rail timetable, December 2023

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Great Western Main Line	Cholsey Didcot Parkway Goring & Streatley
Chiltern Main Line	Banbury Bicester North
Cherwell Valley line	Appleford Banbury Culham Didcot Parkway Heyford Oxford Radley Tackley
Cotswold Line	Ascott-under-Wychwood Charlbury Combe Finstock Hanborough Kingham Oxford Shipton
Oxford–Bicester line	Bicester Village Islip Oxford Oxford Parkway
Henley branch line	Henley-on-Thames Shiplake
Heritage railways	Chinnor Didcot Railway Centre Wallingford

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Tunnels and earthworks	Box Tunnel Cockett Tunnel Great Western Main Line Llansamlet arches Sapperton Tunnel Sonning Cutting South Devon Banks South Devon Railway sea wall Thames Tunnel Wellington Bank, Somerset
Ships, harbours and waterways	Great Western Steamship Company SS Great Western SS Great Britain Balanced rudder SS Great Eastern Isambard Kingdom Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern (1857 photograph) SS Archimedes borrowed by Brunel, used for propeller tests Brentford Dock Bristol Harbour Cumberland Basin Underfall Yard Millbay Docks Westport Canal
Other engineering and building	Atmospheric railway Balloon flange girder Baulk road Broad gauge Brook House, Steventon Crew's Hole tar works Crystal Palace water towers Great Exhibition (Brunel on committee) Malmaison Hotel, Reading Renkioi Hospital Fellow of the Royal Society Institution of Civil Engineers (VP from 1850) Abraham-Louis Breguet (trained Brunel) Robert Pearson Brereton (Chief assistant)
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Legacy and commemoration	Statues of Brunel Victoria Embankment Paddington Station Bristol Temple Meads Station Brunel Museum Being Brunel Broad gauge running line Blue plaque, 98 Cheyne Walk List of Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmarks (SS Great Britain #97) Brunel University of London NR Brunel (Network Rail typeface) Brunel Award 100 Greatest Britons (Brunel #2) Two Brunel £2 coins in 2006 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony featured Brunel Brunel (opera project)
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