Alvescot railway station was a railway station between the Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire is a county in the South East region of England, bordering on Warwickshire and Northamptonshire , Buckinghamshire , Berkshire , Wiltshire and Gloucestershire ....

 villages of Alvescot

Alvescot

Alvescot is a village and civil parish about south of Carterton, Oxfordshire.-History:The Church of England parish church of Saint Peter dates from the 13th century. The Perpendicular Gothic bell tower has a peal of six bells....

 and Black Bourton

Black Bourton

Black Bourton is a village and civil parish about south of Carterton, Oxfordshire. The village is on Black Bourton Brook, a tributary of the River Thames.-Churches:...

. It was on the East Gloucestershire Railway that linked and .

History

The station was built for the East Gloucestershire Railway, but the station and all trains serving it were operated from the beginning by the Great Western Railway

Great Western Railway

The Great Western Railway was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament in 1835 and ran its first trains in 1838...

; it opened on 15 January 1873. Under nationalisation in 1948

Transport Act 1947

The Transport Act 1947 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Under it the railways, long-distance road haulage and various other types of transport were acquired by the state and handed over to a new British Transport Commission for operation...

 the station passed to the Western Region of British Railways

Western Region of British Railways

The Western Region was a region of British Railways from 1948. The region ceased to be an operating unit in its own right in the 1980s and was wound up at the end of 1992...

. On 18 June 1962 British Rail

British Rail

British Railways , which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the operator of most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the "Big Four" British railway companies and lasted until the gradual privatisation of British Rail, in stages...

ways closed Alvescot station and the East Gloucestershire Railway.

The site today

The coal yard is still open, now supplied by road. All the station buildings have been demolished and the remainder of the site is a light industrial area.

External links

• Pictures of the station http://www.martin.loader.btinternet.co.uk/Alvescot.htm
• Station on navigable O.S. map