Swanbourne Station

Swanbourne is a disused railway station that served the villages of Swanbourne, Little Horwood and Mursley in north Buckinghamshire, England. It is on the mothballed Bicester to Bletchley line, roughly at the centre of a triangle drawn between the three villages. HistorySwanbourne was opened by the Buckinghamshire Railway most likely not when the company's line from Banbury to opened on 1 May 1850, but rather a short time afterwards. It did not appear in Bradshaw's Railway Guide until October 1851. The line was worked from the outset by the London and North Western Railway which absorbed the Buckinghamshire Railway in 1879. It was subsequently extended westwards to, to a temporary station at Banbury Road and then to Oxford, opening throughout on 20 May 1851. As it passed through the parish of Little Horwood, the proposed line had been opposed by the Dauncy family, the occupants of Horwood House, who succeeded in having the alignment moved further south into the parish of Swanbourne, which gave the line a distinct curve at this point. In its plans, the Buckinghamshire Railway had referred to the proposed station as "Mursley" after the nearby village of the same name. The station, which eventually took its name from the village of Swanbourne over a mile away, was in an isolated and rural location with no habitations in the immediate locality, a situation which endured until at least 1925. It is situated at the highest point along the line (on a 1 in 214 climb), on the rise of a slight embankment, shielded on its northern side by a small spinney which is rumoured to have been planted by the Dauncy family to hide the railway line.

Swanbourne is a disused railway station that served the villages of Swanbourne, Little Horwood and Mursley in north Buckinghamshire, England. It is on the mothballed Bicester to Bletchley line, roughly at the centre of a triangle drawn between the three villages. HistorySwanbourne was opened by the Buckinghamshire Railway most likely not when the company's line from Banbury to opened on 1 May 1850, but rather a short time afterwards. It did not appear in Bradshaw's Railway Guide until October 1851. The line was worked from the outset by the London and North Western Railway which absorbed the Buckinghamshire Railway in 1879. It was subsequently extended westwards to, to a temporary station at Banbury Road and then to Oxford, opening throughout on 20 May 1851. As it passed through the parish of Little Horwood, the proposed line had been opposed by the Dauncy family, the occupants of Horwood House, who succeeded in having the alignment moved further south into the parish of Swanbourne, which gave the line a distinct curve at this point. In its plans, the Buckinghamshire Railway had referred to the proposed station as "Mursley" after the nearby village of the same name. The station, which eventually took its name from the village of Swanbourne over a mile away, was in an isolated and rural location with no habitations in the immediate locality, a situation which endured until at least 1925. It is situated at the highest point along the line (on a 1 in 214 climb), on the rise of a slight embankment, shielded on its northern side by a small spinney which is rumoured to have been planted by the Dauncy family to hide the railway line.