Didcot Parkway railway station

Didcot Parkway
National Rail
The front of Didcot Parkway station in November 2020.
General information
LocationDidcot, District of South Oxfordshire
England
Coordinates51°36′43″N 1°14′37″W / 51.61197°N 1.24348°W / 51.61197; -1.24348
Grid referenceSU525905
Managed byGreat Western Railway
Platforms5
Other information
Station codeDID
ClassificationDfT category B
History
Original companyGreat Western Railway
Pre-groupingGreat Western Railway
Post-groupingGreat Western Railway
Key dates
1844Opened
1962Line to Newbury closes to passengers
1985Renamed Didcot Parkway
Passengers
2018/19Increase 3.258 million
 Interchange Decrease 0.633 million
2019/20Increase 3.339 million
 Interchange Decrease 0.596 million
2020/21Decrease 0.584 million
 Interchange Decrease 0.101 million
2021/22Increase 2.024 million
 Interchange Increase 0.361 million
2022/23Increase 2.330 million
 Interchange Increase 0.546 million
Location
Map
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Didcot Parkway is a railway station serving Didcot, a town in Oxfordshire, England. The station was opened as Didcot on 12 June 1844[1] and was renamed Didcot Parkway on 29 July 1985 by British Rail,[1] to reflect its role as a park and ride railhead. It is 53 miles 10 chains (53.13 mi; 85.5 km) down the line from London Paddington and is situated between Cholsey to the east and Swindon to the west.[2]

The station is a stop on local services operated by Great Western Railway between Reading and Oxford, and by main line services from Paddington to the south-west of England and south Wales.

Just to the north of the station is the Didcot Railway Centre, which is accessed through the station. The centre is a comprehensive exhibition of original Great Western Railway rolling stock, with demonstration running tracks and including a reconstructed station named Didcot Halt.

  1. ^ a b Butt 1995, p. 78.
  2. ^ Yonge, John; Padgett, David (August 2010) [1989]. Bridge, Mike (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams 3: Western (5th ed.). Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps. map 3C. ISBN 978-0-9549866-6-7.