[1][2] The station building was made of brick and wood,[3] and there was a goods siding and goods shed from [4][5][6][7][8] The Oxford and Rugby Railway had been built from Oxford northwards past Cropredy by 1852.

[2] It never reached Rugby, but at Fenny Compton it met the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway and thus became part of an important north–south main line.

[2] The Great Western Railway took over the O&RR before it was completed, and opened Cropredy railway station in 1854 to serve the village of that name.

The buildings were all wooden, situated on a brick platform in 1908.

[2] The railway remains open as part of the Chiltern Main Line.