Combe railway station

Combe railway station serves the village of Combe in Oxfordshire, England. It is on the Cotswold Line. This station and all trains serving it are run by Great Western Railway.

This article is about the railway station in Oxfordshire. For the railway station on the Looe Valley Line in Cornwall, see Coombe Junction Halt railway station. For the closed railway station in London, see Coombe Road railway station.

Combe
Location
PlaceCombe
Local authorityWest Oxfordshire
Grid referenceSP418150
Operations
Station codeCME
Managed byGreat Western Railway
Number of platforms1
DfT categoryF2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 1,248
2015/16 1,460
2016/17 2,008
2017/18 1,994
2018/19 2,722
History
Key datesOpened 8 July 1935 (8 July 1935)
Original companyGreat Western Railway
Post-groupingGWR
1935Opened
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Combe from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

On weekdays (including bank holidays), one train a day in each direction serves the station: the 08:13 to Didcot Parkway and the 17:35 to Moreton-in-Marsh. There are no trains at weekends.[1]

It was opened as Combe Halt by the Great Western Railway in 1935, originally having two platforms.[2] In 2012, it was equipped with the modern Customer Information display screen now found on most First Great Western stations, plus an automatic train announcement system.

The station is about half a mile from the village of Combe (to the NW) and the hamlet of Combe East End (to the NE).

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Finstock   Great Western Railway
Cotswold Line
Mondays-Fridays only		   Hanborough

References

Notes
  1. "T6 Train times" (PDF). GWR. 15 December 2020 – 16 May 2020.
  2. Robertson 1990, p. .

Sources
  • Butt, R. V. J. (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.
  • Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
  • Robertson, Kevin (1990). Great Western Railway Halts. 1. Pinner: Irwell Press. ISBN 1-871608-17-1.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)


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