Didcot Parkway railway station

Didcot Parkway
The front of Didcot Parkway station in November 2020.
General information
Location	Didcot, District of South Oxfordshire England
Coordinates	51°36′43″N 1°14′37″W / 51.61197°N 1.24348°W / 51.61197; -1.24348
Grid reference	SU525905
Managed by	Great Western Railway
Platforms	5
Other information
Station code	DID
Classification	DfT category B
History
Original company	Great Western Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
1844	Opened
1962	Line to Newbury closes to passengers
1985	Renamed Didcot Parkway
Passengers
2018/19	3.258 million
Interchange	0.633 million
2019/20	3.339 million
Interchange	0.596 million
2020/21	0.584 million
Interchange	0.101 million
2021/22	2.024 million
Interchange	0.361 million
2022/23	2.330 million
Interchange	0.546 million
Location
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Didcot Parkway is a railway station serving Didcot, a town in Oxfordshire, England. The station was opened as Didcot on 12 June 1844^[1] and was renamed Didcot Parkway on 29 July 1985 by British Rail,^[1] to reflect its role as a park and ride railhead. It is 53 miles 10 chains (53.13 mi; 85.5 km) down the line from London Paddington and is situated between Cholsey to the east and Swindon to the west.^[2]

The station is a stop on local services operated by Great Western Railway between Reading and Oxford, and by main line services from Paddington to the south-west of England 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.