Challow railway station
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| Challow | |||
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| Challow station today, with very little remaining of the original station | |||
| Location | |||
| Location | Childrey | ||
| Area | Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire | ||
| Grid reference | SU355905 | ||
| Operations | |||
| Pre-grouping | GWR | ||
| Post-grouping | GWR Western Region of British Railways |
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| Platforms | 2 | ||
| History | |||
| 20 July 1840 | Opened | ||
| 7 December 1964 | Closed | ||
| Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom | |||
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Challow railway station (sometimes referred to as Faringdon Road station) was built by the Great Western Railway extended their main line from Reading to the countryside a few miles north of West Challow, which opened on 20 July 1840.
Services ended, along with all other intermediate stations between Didcot and Swindon, on 7 December 1964.
[edit] The station today
Very small amounts of the station are remaining. The old station building is now used as a private residance. The northern platform has almost disappeared completely and the southern platform is used by Network Rail, although no buildings remain and the buildings used by Network Rail are but small portable cabins. New buildings have been built around the site. The most noticeable is the bail depo on the site of the northern platform. The nearby public house, the Prince of Wales, was burnt down and has never been rebuilt.
Freight trains now use the former site of the station to halt and wait for High speed trains to pass, before continuing.
| Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
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| Wantage Road | British Rail Western Region Great Western Main Line |
Uffington | ||
