Port Meadow Halt
Site of Port Meadow Halt railway station in September 2009. Station site in centre; train upper left is passing Oxford North Junction
General information
Location	Oxford England
Grid reference	SP502079
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Demolished
History
Original company	London & North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London Midland & Scottish Railway
Key dates
20 August 1906	Opened as Summertown Halt
January 1907	Renamed Port Meadow Halt
1 January 1917	Closed
5 May 1919	Re-opened
30 October 1926	Closed
Location

Port Meadow Halt was a railway station on theVarsity Line, between northOxford andPort Meadow. TheLondon & North Western Railway opened the halt asSummertown on 20 August 1906^[1] and renamed itPort Meadow Halt in January 1907. It was closed between 1 January 1917 and 5 May 1919, and theLondon, Midland & Scottish Railway permanently closed it on 30 October 1926.^[2] It was located on the north side of a footbridge leading from the present-dayAristotle Lane into Port Meadow, close to an occupation crossing which also gave access to the up platform.^[2]

The opening of the station marked the inauguration of arail motor car service betweenOxford andBicester. Journey time was 37 minutes and, other than Port Meadow and Bicester, the service called atWolvercote Halt,Oxford Road Halt,Islip,Oddington Halt,Charlton Halt andWendlebury Halt.^[3] On the opening day the rail motor ran hot at the end of a return trip from Bicester in the early part of the morning and a2-4-2 locomotive hauling an 8-wheelcorridor coach replaced it; a step-ladder had to be provided for passengers to alight as the halts were only constructed ofsleepers laid at rail level.^[3] The rail motor service was withdrawn as a wartime economy measure in 1917 and restored in 1919. It was permanently withdrawn from 1926 due to the introduction of motorised bus services around Oxford.^[3]

v t e Railways around Oxford
Legend
toBanbury toWorcester toBicester toWitney andFairford Oxford Parkway Yarnton Oxford Road Halt Yarnton Loop City boundary Wolvercot Junction Wolvercot Platform Wolvercote Halt Oxford North Junction Port Meadow Halt Exchange sidings Sheepwash Channel Rewley Road Swing Bridge Oxford Oxford Rewley Road Osney Rail Bridge Gasworks Bridge Oxford Gas Works River Isis City boundary Oxford (Grandpont) Goods Hinksey Halt Millstream Junction Abingdon Road Halt Kennington Junction Radley Iffley Halt toDidcot Kennington Railway Bridge Littlemore Morris Cowley BMW Mini terminal Horspath Halt toPrinces Risborough

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 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.OL 11956311M.
• Little, E. (March 1930). "Portmeadow Halt, L.M.S.R.". The Why and the Wherefore.The Railway Magazine. Vol. 66, no. 393. Westminster: Railway Publishing Company Ltd. p. 223.ISSN 0033-8923.
• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (July 2005).Oxford to Bletchley. Country Railway Routes. Middleton Press.ISBN 1-904474-57-8.
• Waters, Laurence (1986).Oxford. Rail Centres. London:Ian Allan Publishing.ISBN 0-7110-1590-2.

• "Disused Stations". Subterranea Britannica.
• RAILSCOT on Buckinghamshire Railway

51°46′03″N1°16′24″W / 51.7674°N 1.2734°W /51.7674; -1.2734

• Disused railway stations in Oxfordshire
• Former London and North Western Railway stations
• Transport in Oxford
• Buildings and structures in Oxford
• Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1906
• Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1917
• Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1919
• Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1926

• Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas
• Articles with short description
• Short description is different from Wikidata
• Use dmy dates from May 2017
• Use British English from May 2017
• All Wikipedia articles written in British English
• Articles with OS grid coordinates
• Pages using infobox mapframe without shape links in Wikidata
• Pages with no open date in Infobox station
• Coordinates on Wikidata
• Pages using the Kartographer extension