Combe railway station

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Combe National Rail
Location
Place Combe
Local authority West Oxfordshire
Grid reference SP418150
Operations
Station code CME
Managed by First Great Western
Number of platforms 1
Live arrivals/departures and station information
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2002/03 Decrease 1,548
2004/05 Increase 2,037
2005/06 Increase 2,591
2006/07 Increase 2,612
2007/08 Decrease 2,042
2008/09 Increase 2,120
2009/10 Decrease 1,836
2010/11 Increase 2,546
2011/12 Increase 2,838
History
Opened 8 July 1935 (8 July 1935)
History
Original company Great Western Railway
Post-grouping GWR
1935 Opened
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Combe from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Combe railway station serves the village of Combe in Oxfordshire, England. It is on the Cotswold Line. This station and all trains serving it are run by First Great Western.

On weekdays (including bank holidays), only one train in each direction serves the station: the 07:58 to Oxford and the 17:43 to Great Malvern. There are no trains at weekends.[1]

It was opened as Combe Halt by the Great Western Railway in 1935, originally having two platforms.[2]

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Finstock   First Great Western
Cotswold Line
Mondays-Fridays only
  Hanborough

References

Notes

  1. Table 126 National Rail timetable, May 12
  2. Robertson 1990, p. .

Sources

  • Butt, R. V. J. (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 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 
  • Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137. 
  • Robertson, Kevin (1990). Great Western Railway Halts 1. Pinner: Irwell Press. ISBN 1-871608-17-1. 
  • Combe Halt at The Railway Station Gallery

Coordinates: 51°49′55″N 1°23′35″W / 51.832°N 1.393°W / 51.832; -1.393

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