Culham railway station


Culham railway station serves the village of Culham in Oxfordshire, England. It is on the Cherwell Valley Line between and, from. 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 scientific research site housing two nuclear fusion experiments: JET and MAST. The Science Centre was built on the site of RNAS Culham, a World War II airfield.

History

The Great Western Railway opened the station on the – 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 to Abingdon.
The original station building is in the Tudor Revival architecture of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and is a Grade II* listed building.
The name Abingdon Road was later re-used for an entirely different station about to the north,, 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.

Services

The service from here is irregular outside of weekday peak periods, with sizeable gaps between calls in both directions. On weekdays there are 13 trains per day northbound towards Oxford and 12 towards Didcot with 8 each way on a Saturday. No trains call at Culham on Sundays.