Abingdon Railway

The Abingdon Railway was the company that built and operated a short branch line serving the town of Abingdon in Oxfordshire, England, terminating at a station with a single platform covered by a timber train shed. The line opened on June 2, 1856 under authority of the Abingdon Railway Act 1855, connecting to the Great Western Railway's Oxford branch and operating under GWR management from the start; it was built to broad gauge and converted to standard gauge in November 1872. The Abingdon Railway company itself was formally absorbed into the Great Western Railway in 1904. The line passed into British Railways Western Region after nationalization in 1948, and passenger services ended on September 9, 1963, though freight traffic, notably carrying MG cars, continued until June 1984.