Talk:Abingdon Junction railway station

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To be inserted into this, Abingdon, Culham or Radley as appropriate

All page refs are for Trippett, Nigel; de Courtais, Nicholas (1985). The Abingdon Branch. Upper Bucklebury: Wild Swan. ISBN 0 906867 29 0.

Abingdon rly co incorporated 20 June 1855 (p.3) opened 2 June 1856 (p.3) worked by GWR (p.3) Broad gauge, conv to standard gauge Nov 1872 during which line extended northwards, and junction repositioned at Radley (p.6) Ab R absorbed by GWR, by Act of Oct 1904 (p.9)

Single-tk branch splits 3 ways on approach to Abingdon Junction station (which has 3 platforms, 2 for main line, 1 for branch): (W-E) (i) run-round loop; (ii) branch platform (iii) down Oxford platform. (i) & (ii) converge in headshunt where line terminates. From headshunt there are 3 trakcs (W-E) (i) & (ii) as above, and (iii) trailing connection to up Oxford plat. All junctions trailing, so trains from Oxford to Abingdon must double-reverse (p.5) No road access (p.47) new station at Radley opened 1 Sept 1873 (p.47)

Abingdon Road station renamed Culham 2 June 1856 (p.5,47) (not to be confused with Abingdon Road Halt, listed in Bradshaw btwn 1908-1915) (p.5)

I can't see the reference to "three platforms" in Trippett. He variously mentions a "single platform" (p. 5) and then "two short platforms" (p. 47). Looking at the conjectural track plan on p. 7, I can only see at best two platform faces, one of which is quite short. Lamberhurst (talk) 14:28, 27 March 2010 (UTC) My mistake. Lamberhurst (talk) 09:34, 28 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]