Didcot Parkway Train Station. Open daily. Free entry. Ticket fees apply.
Details
Accessibility:
Pay and display car park available at the station, open 24 hours a day with 1127 spaces available. *Note – The Foxhall car park is only accessible via steps and a footbridge. East car park is step free and accessible. Pick up and drop off point at the station entrance. Toilets with baby changing facilities on site. There is a shop, post box and customer wifi available. Radar key toilets also available. Staff assistance is available on request. Ramp available for train access if needed.
Brief Description:
Didcot Parkway railway station serves the town of Didcot, Oxfordshire. Opened in June 1844 by British Rail and now managed by Great Western Railway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didcot_Parkway_railway_station
2024: "Didcot Parkway is a railway station serving Didcot, a town in Oxfordshire, England. The station was opened as Didcot on 12 June 1844[1] and was renamed Didcot Parkway on 29 July 1985 by British Rail,[1] to reflect its role as a park and ride railhead. It is 53 miles 10 chains (53.13 mi; 85.5 km) down the line from London Paddington and is situated between Cholsey to the east and Swindon to the west.[2]
The station is a stop on local services operated by Great Western Railway between Reading and Oxford, and by main line services from Paddington to the south-west of England and south Wales.
Just to the north of the station is the Didcot Railway Centre, which is accessed through the station. The centre is a comprehensive exhibition of original Great Western Railway rolling stock, with demonstration running tracks and including a reconstructed station named Didcot Halt. The station is located just to the north of the town centre in Didcot. It can only be accessed by car from Station Road itself on the south side of the railway, although passengers may park in Foxhall Road Long Stay Car Park, situated on Basil Hill Road, and cross a footbridge to the station. The station entrance is at road level; platforms 2-5 may be accessed by lifts, while platform 1 may be accessed from the ramp to the left of the station building near the taxi rank. All services are operated by Great Western Railway.
- Platform 1 – Down (westbound) express services to Bristol Temple Meads, Cheltenham Spa, Cardiff Central and Swansea, limited services to Weston-super-Mare, Exeter St Davids and Carmarthen.
- Platform 2 – Up (eastbound) express services to London Paddington.
- Platform 3 – Down (northbound) local services to Oxford, Hereford and Banbury.
- Platform 4 – Up local services to Reading and London Paddington,
- Platform 5 – Down (northbound) local services to Oxford, Banbury and Moreton-in-Marsh
Didcot is a major junction, where the (Great Western Railway-built) line to Oxford, Birmingham New Street and further north leaves the GWML to Bristol Temple Meads via Swindon, Chippenham and Bath Spa also to Swansea via Bristol Parkway and Cardiff Central. There is no local service west of Didcot, so local service is exclusively provided by local trains taking the line to Oxford. However, a proportion of the main line services to Bristol and South Wales do stop here, with the remainder passing through the station non-stop. Fast trains to and from the Oxford line can avoid the station using the Didcot East curve.
A few trains, generally early morning weekday and Sunday services, call at Didcot for the Cotswold Line to Hereford. Infrequently trains to Weston-super-Mare and further south-west call at this station.
Didcot Parkway was served by some CrossCountry services until 2003 when Virgin CrossCountry ceased to call at the station, with all services using the Didcot East curve to and from the Oxford line. As at December 2018, one late night CrossCountry service from Reading to Birmingham New Street passes through Didcot Parkway to allow drivers to retain route knowledge. Passenger services on the West Curve ceased after Thames Trains Oxford to Bristol Temple Meads service was withdrawn in 2003.
Didcot Parkway was planned to be on East West Rail, connecting the GWML, Chiltern Main Line, West Coast Main Line, Midland Main Line and Greater Anglia together. It was planned that people will change here for connections to/from Bristol Temple Meads and South Wales.[26] As of 2020, services were not planned to extend beyond Oxford.[27] An hourly service to/from Bristol was recommended in the June 2021 Oxfordshire Rail Corridor Study (page 8, diagram for morning peak), as well as an hourly service between Banbury and Bristol."
Further Information:
Address:
Didcot Parkway Station, Station Road, Oxfordshire, OX11 7NR
Email:
Great Western Railway - gwrfeedback@gwr.com
Phone:
Great Western Railway – 0345 7000125
Website:
http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations_destinations/DID.aspx
Opening Hours:
Open daily.
Directions:
Situated 6.8 miles from Chilton via the A34 and A4130. OS SU 525905.
Transport:
Bus services operate in and around the area, with bus stops directly outside the station.
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Amenities:
Further amenities can be found further afield of the station on Broadway.
Travel Information
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Location
Nearest Venues
Didcot Railway Centre, Didcot, Oxfordshire
298 metres*
351 metres*
Didcot Power Station, Didcot, Oxfordshire
1.38 miles*
Pendon Museum, Long Wittenham, Oxfordshire
2.17 miles*
*Distances are calculated in a straight line from the current venue, please allow extra time/distance based on available paths or roads.