It also differed from the usual design in that, since it served what was effectively a four-way junction, it was provided with a more extensive range of platform buildings and facilities beneath a longer awning.

Further south however was the more important Culworth Junction, divergence point for a stretch of line 8.25 miles (13.28 km) in length linking the GCR with the Great Western Railway at Banbury, enabling some extensive and varied cross-country workings to take place.

To the north of the station, a major locomotive depot housing up to 30 locos with space to double that number, also wagon and sheet repair shops, plus extensive marshalling yards, were also sited at Woodford Halse (plans to construct carriage sheds there too were dropped).

The originally intended location for these facilities was Brackley until local opposition forced a change in plans and the site moved to Woodford Halse.

Much of this was located on top of a vast embankment covering some 35 acres (14.2 hectares), formed mainly from spoil taken from Catesby Tunnel a few miles to the north.

To the north, where the depot and yards were sited, is now a tree plantation and the Great Central Way Industrial Estate, currently being enlarged to create the Manor Business Park.