Place New Hinksey Grid reference SP513044 Original company Great Western Railway | Area City of Oxford Pre-grouping Great Western Railway Platforms in use 2 | |
Key dates Opened 1 February 1908
Closed 22 March 1915 Similar Horspath Halt railway st, Moulsford railway station, Churn railway station, Steventon railway station, Morris Cowley railway st | ||
Hinksey Halt railway station was built by the Great Western Railway to serve New Hinksey, a suburb of Oxford.
History
The station was situated on the main Didcot to Oxford railway line, to the north of the site of Millstream Junction, the junction for the original terminus at Oxford (Grandpont), which was later a goods station but had closed by 1900. Access to Hinksey Halt was via Norreys Avenue and a footpath across the adjacent reservoir. The reservoir was formerly a ballast pit, dug by the GWR between 1844 and 1848.
It was opened on 1 February 1908 along with four other halts on the route between Oxford and Wheatley.
Services were provided by steam railmotors based at Oxford, which was also the western terminus; the eastern terminus of these services was Wheatley, Thame or Princes Risborough. When the railmotor services were withdrawn on 22 March 1915, the halt closed. The line remains open for passenger services between Reading and Oxford, but these do not call at Hinksey Halt.