Lord's Bridge was a railway station on the Varsity Line which ran between Oxford and Cambridge.

As with the neighbouring Old North Road station, Lord's Bridge was built in open country.

[4] The station was equipped with a LNWR type 4 signal box from which a key could be obtained to unlock the Toft & Kingston siding to the west which handled sugar beet and hay traffic.

[5] The traffic through Lord's Bridge was to change during the Second World War when a large ammunition store was built up at the station which brought many new workings to the line including an ex-Midland 2F tank locomotive which was kept permanently there for the purposes of shunting each train into the depot as they arrived and preparing the empties for return.

This allowed the construction of the rail-mounted Ryle radio telescope array, moving along a 4.8 km length of track of approximately 20 ft gauge.