A fantastic evening session spent at Kings Sutton on the Chiltern Mainline where we see plenty of services from Chiltern Railways, Cross Country, Great Western Railway and plenty of freight from Freightliner, GBRF, DB Cargo UK, Colas Rail and Network Rail.

Kings Sutton didn't have a station opened until 1872 even though the line through the village had been built from 1845 to 1850. By 1881 the station had become a junction station when the Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway via Chipping Norton was opened, the line stayed open to passenger traffic until 1951 when British Rail withdrew the service, however the line remained opened for freight traffic up until 1964 the same year the station went back to being an unstaffed halt which was how it used to be. During the 1960's British Rail removed the bridge linking the two platforms together and instead built a foot crossing at the north of the station which you can still see to this day, however you can't use it. The foot crossing was in place up until 2005 where a passenger had a very near miss with a passing express train heading to London. Security guards were then brought into place to oversee the crossing but that was short-lived as the very next year a new footbridge was built.

Joining me today was Kenzies Loco Chase, please do check out his channel as he has some amazing content.

My next rush hour film will be Kings Cross.

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