Ascott-under-Wychwood railway station

Not to be confused with Ascot railway station (Berkshire).

Ascott-under-Wychwood railway station is a railway station serving the village of Ascott-under-Wychwood in Oxfordshire, England. It is on the Cotswold Line. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by Great Western Railway.

Ascott-under-Wychwood
View towards Oxford after works to redouble the track
General information
Location	Ascott-under-Wychwood, West Oxfordshire England
Grid reference	SP301188
Managed by	Great Western Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	AUW
Classification	DfT category F2
History
Opened	4 June 1853
Original company	Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	GWR
Key dates
4 June 1853	Station opened as Ascott
1 February 1880	Name changed to Ascott-Under-Wychwood
24 May 1965	Name changed to Ascott-Under-Wychwood Halt
5 May 1969	Name changed to Ascott-Under-Wychwood
Passengers
2018/19	2,638
2019/20	3,036
2020/21	638
2021/22	1,162
2022/23	1,628
Location
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

West of the station is a level crossing, controlled by Ascott-under-Wychwood Signal Box, which also oversees the adjacent end of the double-tracked section of the Cotswold Line. Under proposals to extend the doubling of the route, the signal box was to be removed but budgetary constraints on resignalling led to that proposal being revised.

Ascott-under-Wychwood Signal Box

History

Opened by the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway, it became part of the West Midland Railway and then was absorbed by the Great Western Railway. The station then passed on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

The Reshaping of British Railways report proposed the closure of Ascott-under-Wychwood station, but the recommendation was not implemented.

When British Rail introduced Sectorisation in the 1980s, the station was served by Network SouthEast until the Privatisation of British Rail. It was then managed by Thames Trains, but after a short period with First Great Western Link, it is now managed by Great Western Railway.

Services

Currently there is only one peak-hour train per day in each direction Mondays–Fridays including most bank holidays, and no regular Saturday or Sunday service. A limited Saturday service operates in the weeks running up to Christmas.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Shipton		Great Western Railway Cotswold Line Mondays-Fridays only		Charlbury

References

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 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 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.

External links

• Station on navigable O.S. map