The name is interesting since the location is more than a mile from the hamlet of Sarsden and much closer to the village of Churchill.
Firstly, James Haughton Langston MP of Sarsden House was one of the promoters of the railway and owned much of the land on which it was built.
In 1852 James Haughton Langston had earlier tried to obtain a railway siding on the OW&W Railway, as recorded in that company's Traffic Committee minutes for 20 November: A letter was read from Mr. Varden relative to a siding near Sarsden.
Kingham Station was not equipped for the handling of goods traffic so supplies for the school, including coal and provisions, were consigned to Sarsden Siding.
The price paid by the school to purchase the mill was considerably in excess of the market value and can only be explained by the importance placed on gaining unrestricted road access to Sarsden Siding.
It contained six levers controlling two distant signals, the gate locks and the points at the Kingham end of the siding.
On 1 December 1962 British Rail ran the last passenger train on the Chipping Norton Railway and closed Sarsden Halt.
Most trains on the line called at the Halt, which was used by passengers from the village of Churchill and from Kingham Hill School.
The Sarsden Halt nameboard and signal box nameplate are not thought to have survived.