Image Frontage, Charlbury station
Frontage, Charlbury station
Frontage, Charlbury station The tastefully restored, grade II listed building at Charlbury is in the Italianate architectural style of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. It is likely that the Cotswold Line would have shut sometimes in the 1970s or early 1980s but for one local resident of Charlbury, Sir Peter Parker (1924-2002). He became the Chairman of BR in 1976 an made his regular commute from this station to London. The fabled story is that it was his patronage of the line and his staunch rejection of the Serpell Report (1982) that kept it alive as it was identified for possible closure having already been severely rationalised. Interesting then, that it is now going through a renaissance, having been redoubled in large sections and about to have the class 800s running on it. Keywords: Frontage, Charlbury station
Frontage, Charlbury station The tastefully restored, grade II listed building at Charlbury is in the Italianate architectural style of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. It is likely that the Cotswold Line would have shut sometimes in the 1970s or early 1980s but for one local resident of Charlbury, Sir Peter Parker (1924-2002). He became the Chairman of BR in 1976 an made his regular commute from this station to London. The fabled story is that it was his patronage of the line and his staunch rejection of the Serpell Report (1982) that kept it alive as it was identified for possible closure having already been severely rationalised. Interesting then, that it is now going through a renaissance, having been redoubled in large sections and about to have the class 800s running on it. Keywords: Frontage, Charlbury station


The tastefully restored, grade II listed building at Charlbury is

in the Italianate architectural style of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. It is likely that the Cotswold Line would have shut sometimes in the 1970s or early 1980s but for one local resident of Charlbury, Sir Peter Parker (1924-2002). He became the Chairman of BR in 1976 an made his regular commute from this station to London. The fabled story is that it was his patronage of the line and his staunch rejection of the Serpell Report (1982) that kept it alive as it was identified for possible closure having already been severely rationalised. Interesting then, that it is now going through a renaissance, having been redoubled in large sections and about to have the class 800s running on it.