Culham  | |||||
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| General information | |||||
| Location | Culham,South Oxfordshire England | ||||
| Grid reference | SU529953 | ||||
| Managed by | Great Western Railway | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | CUM | ||||
| Classification | DfT category F1 | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 1844 | ||||
| Original company | Great Western Railway | ||||
| Pre-grouping | GWR | ||||
| Post-grouping | GWR | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2019/20 |  107,072 | ||||
| 2020/21 |  21,586 | ||||
| 2021/22 | 60,142 | ||||
| 2022/23 | 80,752 | ||||
| 2023/24 | 72,232 | ||||
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Culham railway station serves the village ofCulham inOxfordshire, England. It is on theCherwell Valley Line betweenDidcot Parkway andBanbury, 56 miles 17 chains (90.5 km) fromLondon Paddington. It is served by local train services provided byGreat Western Railway.
The station is just off theA415 road, between the villages of Culham andClifton Hampden.
It is close toCulham Science Centre, an 80-hectare (200-acre) scientific research site housing twonuclear fusion experiments:JET andMAST. The Science Centre was built on the site ofRNAS Culham (HMS Hornbill), aWorld War II airfield.
TheGreat Western Railway opened the station on theDidcot –Oxford line asAbingdon Road on 12 June 1844. Its name was changed by the GWR toCulham, on 2 June 1856, on the opening of the branch fromAbingdon Junction toAbingdon.
The original station building (no longer in railway use) is in theTudor Revival architecture ofIsambard Kingdom Brunel[1] and is aGrade II* listed building.
The nameAbingdon Road was later re-used for an entirely different station about 5.5 miles (9 km) to the north,Abingdon Road Halt, opened in 1908.
In some recent years passenger numbers using Culham have changed rapidly. The total increased 67% in the three years 2006–09, but then decreased slightly in 2010.[2]
All services at Culham are operated byGreat Western Railway.
The typical off-peak service is one train per hour in each direction betweenDidcot Parkway andOxford, with alternate trains continuing beyond Oxford to and fromBanbury every two hours. Additional services call at the station during the peak hours.[3]
No services call at the station on Sundays.
| Preceding station |  National Rail | Following station | ||
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| Great Western Railway Monday-Saturday only | ||||
| Disused railways | ||||
| Great Western Railway | ||||
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