![]() Sarsden Halt 1960 (photo by D R Lewis)
As well as Churchill and Chipping Norton the line linked stations at a number of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire villages, including Adderbury, Bloxham, Stow on the Wold and Bourton on the Water. It also connected with the main Worcester to London line at Kingham, which then had four platforms instead of the present two. The derelict remains of the other two platforms are still visible from platform 2.
It would probably have been a popular tourist and transport link today, had it survived! Further reading: Chipping Norton Railway (published by Amberley) by Alan Watkins (Churchill resident whose father worked on the railway) and Brenda Morris The Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway (Lightmoor Press) To return to Village History page click here |