In the 1930s, in response to increasing competition from bus services, the Great Western Railway opened a number of new halts.

The typical off-peak service is one train every two hours in each direction between Didcot Parkway and Banbury, operated by Great Western Railway.

The station is also served by a single late evening service from Oxford to Banbury, operated by Chiltern Railways on weekdays only.

[2] On Sundays, the station is served by three Great Western Railway services in each direction between Oxford and Banbury during the summer months (between May and September) only.

[3] This was still the case in 2009,[3] but by 2012 the large gates had been replaced by fences and the surface for vehicles to cross the tracks had been removed (see photo).

[5] The council declared "that the proposed footbridge will, by reason of its size, design and use of materials represent an alien, incongruous and overtly urban feature in this rural location".

[5] WODC again refused planning permission, this time asserting "the design's failure to make safe and convenient provision for horses, their riders, pedestrians, cyclists, the elderly and disabled people; and that the subway would appear as an unduly prominent and intrusive feature in the rural scene".

[6] A planning inspector visited the crossing[6] and, unlike WODC, commented that the subway would improve access to and from the "up" platform for passengers with some types of disability.

[10] The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) found that the immediate cause of the 2008 fatality was that Mrs Evans stepped into the path of the express train.