...Bampton Station Oxfordshire circa 1910

This hopeful looking group, with their baggage, are perhaps setting out on a works outing, though seem well wrapped against the weather.

Bampton station in Oxfordshire - not to be confused with the one in Devon - was part of the East Gloucestershire Railway, which opened in 1873, and the line ran as shown on the following map.

Courtesy: Afterbrunel - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37706360 


It was subsequently renamed Brize Norton and Bampton, and closed in 1962, though the line remained in part use until about 1970. Nothing now remains of the line or station, but some addtional information about its history and some interesting photographs can be found at:

http://www.fairfordbranch.co.uk/Bampton.htm