Night Photo Empty Didcot Parkway UK Train Station 2004

 Empty Didcot Parkway UK Train Station

Photo:  Charles Moorhen

A rare sight indeed.  An early evening black and white photo of a totally deserted Didcot Parkway UK railway Station.

Didcot Parkway station was originally opened simply as Didcot by the Great Western Railway in 1844.

The station is served by both local services operated from Reading to Didcot and Oxford, and by mainline services from London Paddington to the south-west of England and Wales.

The Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway (DN&S) once linked Didcot with Newbury, carrying services to Southampton via Newbury, Highclere, Winchester and Eastleigh.

The DN&S was closed to passengers on the 10th September 1962, and to freight workings in 1967.

At the eastern end of Platform 1, there is a raised section of the east car park which used to be the bay platform for the DN&S.

Update:

Since writing this page, the car park has been excavated by archaeologists revealing the footings of numerous buildings.

In 1985 a new main station building was opened on the 29th July by David Mitchell MP, and the name of the station was changed from simply Didcot to Didcot Parkway.

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