Milton Halt railway station

Milton Halt
Milton Halt
	Station site in 1991.
General information
Location	Milton, Cherwell; England
Grid reference	SP452352
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Great Western Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway ; Western Region of British Railways
Key dates
1 January 1908	Station opens
4 June 1951	Station closes

Milton Halt railway station is a former railway station that served the village of Milton in northern Oxfordshire, England.

History

The station was built by the Great Western Railway. It opened to passengers on 1 January 1908 (Jenkins^[1] gives the date as 1 January 1906 but the Board of Trade plan on the same page is dated 14 November 1907 suggesting that the 1908 date given by other sources is correct). The Halt had a 120-foot-long (37 m) wooden platform and "pagoda" shelter. There was also a small corrugated iron shed, identified as "office" on the 1907 Board of Trade plan,^[2] with the area between the two buildings identified as "space for milk churns". Although no goods facilities were provided, milk traffic was important and as soon as the halt opened two farmers paid £5 a year each for milk carriage.^[3]

The halt was located on an embankment and approached by a cinder path from the road below. It was unstaffed and the guards of the first and last trains of the day would light and extinguish the oil lamps. Milton Halt came under the control of the Bloxham stationmaster and a porter from Bloxham would visit occasionally to re-fuel the lamps.

When Britain's railways were nationalised in 1948 the B&CDR became part of the Western Region of British Railways, which then closed the line through Milton to passengers in 1951.

Route

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Bloxham Line and station closed		Great Western Railway Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway		Adderbury Line and station closed

Notes

^ Jenkins 2004, p.304.
^ Jenkins 2004, p.304.
^ Hemmings Vol.1, p.158.

References

Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
Hemmings, William (2004). The Banbury & Cheltenham Railway Volume One. Didcot: Wild Swan Publications. ISBN 1-874103-88-7.
Hemmings, William (2004). The Banbury & Cheltenham Railway Volume Two. Didcot: Wild Swan Publications. ISBN 1-874103-89-5.
Jenkins, Stanley; Bob Brown; Neil Parkhouse (2004). The Banbury & Cheltenham Direct Railway. Lydney: Lightmoor Press. ISBN 1-899889-15-9.