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Eynsham railway station
Eynsham railway station served the Oxfordshire village of Eynsham and the Eynsham Sugar Beet Factory on the Oxford, Witney and Fairford Railway between and .
==History==
The Witney Railway, including Eynsham station, opened on 14 November 1861. It was originally a single platform station, but was the Witney Railway's principal intermediate station. The contractor who built the line, Malachi Bartlett, erected single-storey wooden station building in the same style as that at the line's other stations at and . It was weather-boarded and had a Welsh slate hip roof with a shallow pitch and broad eaves. In 1892 the Great Western Railway added a signal box next to the station building, very similar to that at . A large Cotswold stone goods shed stood at the Fairford end of the platform, a few yards from the signal box.
The station had a goods yard that handled significant goods traffic. It had two sidings (later three) and a 1-ton crane. The largest traffic was coal, for which the third siding was added in 1878 north of the goods shed. In its heyday in the 1920s, Eynsham station was handling up to 12,000 tons of freight a year, while passenger bookings averaged 14,000 annually over the same period. There was a large sugar beet factory east of the station that had three sidings. It opened in 1927 but was not successful and closed in 1931. In the Second World War the factory became a Royal Army Service Corps depot. Afterwards it became a storage depot for the Colonial Development Corporation, then the premises of J. Harding (Eynsham) and finally a depot for British Leyland.
In May 1944 a passing loop and second platform and platform were added to the station, increasing capacity on the single-track line for troop and armaments movements in preparation for the Normandy landings. The loop and platform were on the Down side, and the original became the Up platform. The station also handled agricultural traffic and wagonloads of bones for the local glue factory. At the Oxford end of the station was a level crossing where the line crossed the Stanton Harcourt road.
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