Morris Cowley railway station

Morris Cowley
The station in 1963
General information
Location	Cowley, City of Oxford England
Grid reference	SP554035
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Great Western Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway Western Region of British Railways
Key dates
1 February 1908[1]	Opened as Garsington Bridge Halt
22 March 1915	Closed
24 September 1928	Reopened and renamed Morris Cowley
7 January 1963[2]	Closed to passengers

Morris Cowley was an intermediate station on the Wycombe Railway which served the small town of Cowley, just outside Oxford, from 1908 to 1915, and again from 1928 to 1963. The station originally opened as part of an attempt by the Great Western Railway to enable to have more passengers access to the line, at a time when competition from bus services was drawing away patronage. The line through Morris Cowley remains open for the purposes of serving the BMW Mini factory, although the possibility of reinstating passenger services has been explored by Chiltern Railways, the franchise holder for the Chiltern Main Line which runs through Princes Risborough.