Didcot Parkway railway station

Didcot Parkway railway station is a railway station serving the town of Didcot in Oxfordshire in England. The station was opened as Didcot railway station in 1844, and renamed to Didcot Parkway in the 1980s to reflect a new role as a park and ride railhead.

The station is served by local services operated by First Great Western Link from Reading to Didcot and Oxford, and by inter-city services from London Paddington to Bristol and South Wales.

Didcot is a major junction, where the old Great Western Railway line to Oxford, Birmingham and points north leaves the Great Western Main Line to Bristol and South Wales. There is no local service west of Didcot on the line to Bristol and South Wales, so local service is exclusively provided by local trains taking the line to Oxford. However a proportion of the inter-city services to Bristol and South Wales do stop here, with the remainder passing through the station non-stop. Inter-city trains to and from the Oxford line (mostly Virgin Trains cross-country services) can avoid the station using the Didcot East curve, and generally do not stop at Didcot.

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 Great Western Railway rolling stock, with demonstration running tracks and including a reconstructed station named Didcot Halt.

External links

• Train times for Didcot Parkway railway station from National Rail
• Street map and aerial photo of Didcot Parkway railway station from Multimap.com