Marsh Gibbon and Poundon railway station

Marsh Gibbon and Poundon railway station was a railway station to the west of Verney Junction on the Oxford and Bletchley section of the LNWR's branch of what is now known as the Varsity Line.

Marsh Gibbon and Poundon
Station in 1967.
General information
Location	Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire England
Grid reference	SP651246
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	LNWR
Pre-grouping	LNWR
Post-grouping	LMS
Key dates
7 August 1880	Station opens
1 January 1968	Station closes

History

The line was opened in 1850–51 with a station at Launton some two miles away. The original intention had been to call this station Poundon Bridge, however the name never seems to have been used. Marsh Gibbon and Poundon opened on 7 August 1880.

The era of extravagantly designed and built country stations had long passed, and what was provided were simple but practical timber buildings without awnings. Oddly the station still retained the low platforms of earlier stations on the line. Even though there were proposals to raise them in the early 20th century, they remained until closure. Small moveable steps had to be provided to allow passengers to board and alight easily.

Station house in 2007.

Another feature was the bay window in the main building which was on the down Oxford platform. This projected out onto the platform since it was the signal box. There was a clock in the centre which was visible on the platforms as required by the Board of Trade. There was a small waiting shed on the up Bletchley-bound platform, and a single siding off the down, running at an angle in front of the main building

At grouping in 1923 it became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway; it duly passed to British Railways in 1948, as part of the London Midland Region. Diesel trains were provided for passenger services from 2 November 1959. The station stopped handling goods traffic on 2 November 1964; the signalbox was closed in January 1965 and passenger services were withdrawn when the whole of the route from Bletchley to Oxford closed on 1 January 1968. The station was demolished within a year after closure.

Routes

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Launton Line and station closed		London and North Western Railway Varsity Line		Claydon Line and station closed

Varsity Line
Cherwell Valley line to Didcot Oxford Rewley Road Oxford Sheepwash Channel Port Meadow Halt Cotswold line to Hereford Oxford Canal Cherwell Valley line to Banbury Wolvercote Halt Wolvercote tunnel Bucks Jn Rly Oxford Road Halt Oxford Parkway Islip Oddington Halt Charlton Halt Wendlebury Halt Bicester Military Rly Bicester London Road Bicester chord GWR to High Wycombe GWR Bicester cut-off to Banbury Launton Marsh Gibbon and Poundon GCML to Aylesbury GCML to Rugby Central Claydon curve Freight traffic reversing siding Claydon Banbury–Verney Jn line to Banbury Verney Junction Metropolitan Rly to Aylesbury Winslow Swanbourne WCML to Euston Swanbourne Siding Bletchley Flyover Bletchley WCML to Milton Keynes C. Bletchley TMD Fenny Stratford Grand Union Canal Bow Brickhill Woburn Sands Aspley Guise Husborne Crawley Marston Vale line Ridgmont Lidlington Millbrook Stewartby Wootton Broadmead Kempston Hardwick Midland Main Line to St Pancras Kempston & Elstow Bedford–Hitchin line to Hitchin Bedford St Johns Bedford St Johns (former) Bedford Willington Midland Main Line to Leicester Blunham River Ivel Girtford Halt ECML to Peterborough Sandy curve Sandy ECML to Hitchin Potton Gamlingay Old North Road Lord's Bridge Mullard Observatory Cambridge line to Hitchin WAML to London Cambridge Ipswich–Ely line to Ipswich GER to Mildenhall GER to St Ives Fen line to King's Lynn

References

• Hendry, R. Preston; Hendry, R. Powell (1982). An historical survey of selected LMS stations: layouts and illustrations. Vol. 1. Oxford Publishing.
• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (July 2005). Oxford to Bletchley. Country Railway Routes. Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN 1-904474-57-8.

External links

• Marsh Gibbon and Poundon station on Subterranea Britannica.