Shipton railway station

Shipton
Shipton railway station in 2007
Location
Place	Shipton-under-Wychwood
Local authority	West Oxfordshire
Grid reference	SP281186
Operations
Station code	SIP
Managed by	Great Western Railway
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	6,231
2005/06	5,513
2006/07	5,389
2007/08	3,914
2008/09	3,032
2009/10	2,890
2010/11	3,614
2011/12	4,680
2012/13	5,024
2013/14	5,050
History
Key dates	Opened 4 June 1853
Original company	Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	GWR
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Shipton from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Shipton railway station serves the villages of Shipton-under-Wychwood and Milton-under-Wychwood in Oxfordshire, England. The station and all trains serving it are operated by Great Western Railway.

Services

Shipton is served by two trains in each direction each weekday. The up trains are the 0740 service terminating at Oxford, and the 1705 service through to London Paddington, which is operated by a High Speed Train (HST). The down services are the 1800 to Worcester Foregate Street, the 1916 (operated by an HST) and 2318 to Worcester Shrub Hill.

Up Saturday services are enhanced, with the 0800, 0902, 1701 and 2230 services running through to London Paddington. All but the 2230 are operated by HSTs. Down Saturday services consist of the 1446, 1746 (operated by an HST) and 2112 running to Great Malvern and the 2314 running to Worcester Shrub Hill.

There is no Sunday service from Shipton in either direction.^[1]

References

1. "Timetable 19" (PDF). Great Western Railway. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 23, 2011.

Coordinates: 51°51′58″N 1°35′35″W / 51.866°N 1.593°W