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Hanborough railway station is a railway station serving the village of Long Hanborough in Oxfordshire, England. As a result of the Cotswold Line being singled the former up platform is the only one now in use for both up and down trains. It is served by Great Western Railway trains between and . It is also the nearest station to the town of Woodstock. There is a passenger-operated ticket machine (card payments only; not cash) at the entrance to the station platform. The station has two car parks, which between them provide 241 car spaces. However, on most weekdays the number of passengers parking at Hanborough exceeds the number of spaces available. Oxford Bus Museum〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Oxford Bus Museum )〕 is just east of the station, in the former goods yard. ==History== The Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway opened the station on 4 June 1853, and it was originally named ''Handborough''. Between 1854 and 1861 it served as a junction for Oxford-bound passengers changing from through trains between Worcester and , for which role a refreshment room was provided. On 30 January 1965, by which time the station boards read 'Handborough for Blenheim', it was the destination for the funeral train of Sir Winston Churchill hauled by Battle of Britain class locomotive No. 34051 ''Winston Churchill''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sir Winston Churchill's Funeral Train )〕 In his commentary on the funeral for BBC television, Richard Dimbleby said the ''The Reshaping of British Railways'' report had scheduled the station for closure.〔 repeated on BBC Parliament, 30 January 2014〕 In the event, the station was not closed. In January 1966 the station was de-staffed, after which the standard OW&WR wooden station building and goods shed were demolished. On 28 September 1992 the station was renamed ''Hanborough''.〔 Since 2005–06 the number of passengers using the station has almost trebled.〔Office of the Rail Regulator data: see infobox at head of article.〕 More than 250 passengers a day come by car, but the original car park had only 50 spaces and by 2011 it had been overwhelmed. In August 2011 First Great Western and a house-building company jointly proposed a new development on a green field site next to the station that would provide new homes and a new 191-space car park. This was officially opened in July 2013, by which time it was already more than half-full each weekday. In November 2014 the Cotswold Line Promotion Group found 204 vehicles parked in the 191-space second car park and reported that it ''"was being used beyond capacity on most weekdays"''.〔 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「Hanborough railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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