Culham railway station

Culham railway station is a railway station serving the village of Culham in Oxfordshire, England. It is served by local train services provided by Great Western Railway.The station is just off the A415 road, between the villages of Culham and Clifton Hampden.The station is close to the site of RNAS Culham (HMS Hornbill), a Second World War airfield. The former airfield is now the Culham Science Centre, an scientific research site and home to two nuclear fusion experiments JET and MAST. The START Nuclear Fusion Experiment was also conducted on the site until MAST succeeded it in 1999.HistoryThe Great Western Railway opened the station on the – line as Abingdon Road on 12 June 1844. Its name was changed by the GWR to Culham, on 2 June 1856, on the opening of the branch from to Abingdon.The original station building (no longer in railway use) is in the Tudor Revival architecture of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and is a Grade II* listed building.