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(4K) Trains at Banbury (CML) - 09/04/2025

The 260th video of my train spotting adventures. ----- This video takes us up along to the upper end of the Cherwell Valley Line from Oxford, to Banbury railway station. A moderate, 4-platform DfT Category C1 "Important feeder" train station, it was first opened as "Banbury Bridge Street" station on the 2nd September 1850, some four months after the Buckinghamshire Railway (part of the L&NWR) opened its Banbury Merton Street terminus. When meadows and the recently disused racecourse at Grimsbury were sold to the Great Western Railway (GWR) in about 1850, the owner also sold the other part of his land, north of the Middleton road to the Banbury Freehold Land Society; this was financially backed by Cobb's Bank, on which to build middle-class houses, but development was slow at the time and some plots were never built upon. - The station was going to be part of the GWR's Oxford and Rugby Railway, before the problems with changing gauges at Rugby prevented it. The 24-mile (39 km) single track extension from Oxford to Banbury did open. At first, Banbury was just a single platform through station (works were continuing to Birmingham); however, the popularity of the line meant that the route was soon double tracked barely two years later and the station was given an extra platform in an up and down configuration. By 1882, an extra up goods line had been laid on the east side of the station, outside the train shed, together with a transfer line to the LNWR route. - In 1903, Banbury had south and north bays cut into the up platform, along with an extra bay on the downside at the north end. There was a down goods loop north of the station; all of this was to cope with traffic from the Great Central Main Line, which joined at Banbury North Junction in 1900. The inclusion of terminating bays and goods loops reflected Banbury's increasing strategic position in the national network. In 1904, the refreshment rooms were rebuilt to the designs of Percy Emerson Culverhouse. The station was rebuilt into its present form in 1958. - Banbury was once a junction for the line to Buckingham, which closed in the 1960s. There was also another station nearby at Banbury Merton Street. Banbury Bridge Street station occupied one of the most strategic and important locations in the entire rail network in Britain. For example: =-The Aberdeen to Penzance express used the Woodford Halse branch of the GCR through Banbury as part of its journey. =-The Ports to Ports Express between the North-East (Newcastle, Middlesbrough) and South Wales (Cardiff, Newport) used the Great Central Railway branch line. =-The Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway (B&CDR) passed through Banbury, as well as Newcastle to Bournemouth, Newcastle to Southampton, the York to Swindon sleeper and Bournemouth to Birkenhead Woodside/Manchester Piccadilly services. =-Most cross-country services in Britain passed through Banbury, which helped the growth of the town and its cattle market. - After nationalisation in 1948, the station was renamed Banbury General to distinguish it from Banbury Merton Street station. Merton Street was closed in 1966, and the suffix was officially discontinued by 1974, although it remained on tickets until the Edmondson type ticket machines were replaced in the early 1980s. The current station is on the site of the Great Western Railway line that opened to Banbury in 1850. The original station's overall roof survived until 1953, five years before a rebuild in 1958. The rebuilding of the station was delayed due to the Second World War and could have been based on the GWR's new station at Leamington Spa, which was finished just before war commenced. The new station of 1958 was designed by Howard Cavanagh. - Passenger traffic at Banbury has grown rapidly; between 2003 and 2010, the number of passengers using the station increased by 85%. ----- Filmed on the: Chiltern Main Line ----- Services seen: CR) Services towards Bicester North, Haddenham & Thame Parkway, Princes Risborough, High Wycombe, London Marylebone, Leamington Spa, Warwick, Solihul, Birmingham Moor Street/Snow Hill and Stourbridge Junction. - XC) Services towards Oxford, Reading, Basingstoke, Winchester, Southampton Airport Parkway, Southampton Central, Bournemouth, Leamington Spa, Coventry, Birmingham Int, Birmingham New Street, and onwards to Stafford, Stoke and Manchester. - GWR) Services towards Kings Sutton, Heyford, Tackley, Oxford, Radley, Culham, Appleford and Didcot Parkway. ----- Trains seen: CR) Class 68 UKLight + DVT, Class 165 Networker Turbo, Class 168 Clubman XC) Class 220/221 Voyager GWR) Class 165 Networker Turbo DB) Class 66 Colas) Class 59 ----- Please leave a like, comment or even subscribe if you enjoy my content. Thanks for watching :)