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Didcot Parkway is a railway station serving the town of Didcot in Oxfordshire, England. The station was opened as Didcot on 12 June 1844, and renamed Didcot Parkway on 29 July 1985 to reflect its role as a park and ride railhead. The station is served by local services operated by Great Western Railway from to Didcot and , and by Main line services from to Bristol 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. ==History== The railway has run through Didcot since 1 June 1840, when the Great Western Railway extended its main line from Reading to . During this period a stagecoach transported passengers to Oxford from Steventon. A few weeks later the line was extended to Faringdon Road station near West Challow, and eventually to Bristol. On 12 June 1844 the line from Didcot to Oxford was opened and Didcot station was opened at the junction. The original intended route would have taken a line from Steventon to Oxford via Abingdon, but Abingdon's townspeople objected to this idea. Otherwise, it is unlikely that Didcot would have evolved into the town it is today, as its initial growth was prompted by the coming of the railway. The Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway linked Didcot with , carrying services to Southampton via Newbury, , and . In its latter years it was reduced to a rural backwater before its closure just before the Beeching Report. The DN&S Railway was closed to passengers on 10 September 1962 and to freight in 1967. On 7 December 1964, local passenger services between Didcot and were withdrawn and the stations at Steventon, , , , and were closed. A new 600-space car park was built on the site of the former provender store to the west of the station. At the same time, a new main building was constructed. These were opened on 29 July 1985 by David Mitchell MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport, and on that date the station was renamed ''Didcot Parkway''. 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「Didcot Parkway railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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