Place Watlington Grid reference SU696952 Post-grouping Great Western Railway Platforms in use 1 | Area South Oxfordshire Pre-grouping Great Western Railway 15 August 1872 Station opened | |
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Original company Watlington and Princes Risborough Railway Similar Aston Rowant railway st, Milton Halt railway station, Carterton (Oxfordshire) railway st, Fritwell & Somerton railway st, Bletchington railway station |
Watlington railway station in Oxfordshire was the terminus of the Watlington and Princes Risborough Railway and opened in 1872. Watlington station was not in Watlington itself, but in Pyrton about a mile north east from centre of Watlington.
The line was always single track. The facilities at Watlington station included a stone-built passenger building, a goods shed, and locomotive and carriage sheds.
The line was projected to be extended to Wallingford, where it would complete a cross-country line between Cholsey and Princes Risborough. Due to financial difficulties the Watlington - Wallingford section was never built.
British Railways closed the Watlington and Princes Risborough Railway to passengers in 1957 and to goods in 1961. Remains of the buildings exist, heavily overgrown, on private land.