|
Culham railway station is a railway station serving the village of Culham in Oxfordshire, England. It is served by local train services provided by First Great Western. The station is just off the A415 road, between the villages of Culham and Clifton Hampden. The station is close to the site of RNAS Culham (HMS Hornbill), a World War II airfield. The former airfield is now the Culham Science Centre, an scientific research site and home to two nuclear fusion experiments JET and MAST. The START Nuclear Fusion Experiment was also conducted on the site until MAST succeeded it in 1999. This important scientific centre means the station creates a valid commuter service. ==History== The Great Western Railway opened the station on the – line as Abingdon Road on 12 June 1844. Its name was changed by the GWR to Culham, on 2 June 1856, on the opening of the branch from to Abingdon. The original station building (no longer in railway use) is in the Tudor Revival architecture of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and is a Grade II * listed building. The name ''Abingdon Road'' was later re-used for an entirely different station about to the north, , opened in 1908. In some recent years passenger numbers using Culham have changed rapidly. The total increased 67% in the three years 2006–09, but then decreased slightly in 2010.〔Office of the Rail Regulator data: see infobox at head of article.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Culham railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|