Didcot Parkway railway station
The front of Didcot Parkway station in November 2020. | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Didcot, District of South Oxfordshire England | ||||
| Coordinates | 51°36′43″N 1°14′37″W / 51.61197°N 1.24348°W | ||||
| Grid reference | SU525905 | ||||
| Managed by | Great Western Railway | ||||
| Platforms | 5 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | DID | ||||
| Classification | DfT category B | ||||
| History | |||||
| Original company | Great Western Railway | ||||
| Pre-grouping | Great Western Railway | ||||
| Post-grouping | Great Western Railway | ||||
| Key dates | |||||
| 1844 | Opened | ||||
| 1962 | Line to Newbury closed to passengers | ||||
| 1985 | Renamed Didcot Parkway | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2019/20 | 3.339 million | ||||
| Interchange | 0.596 million | ||||
| 2020/21 | 0.584 million | ||||
| Interchange | 0.101 million | ||||
| 2021/22 | 2.024 million | ||||
| Interchange | 0.361 million | ||||
| 2022/23 | 2.330 million | ||||
| Interchange | 0.546 million | ||||
| 2023/24 | 2.546 million | ||||
| Interchange | 0.545 million | ||||
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Didcot Parkway is a railway station serving Didcot, a town in Oxfordshire, England. The station was opened as Didcot on 12 June 1844 and was renamed Didcot Parkway on 29 July 1985 by British Rail, 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.
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.