Hanborough railway station is a railway station in the village of Long Hanborough in Oxfordshire, England, serving the village and surrounding district. As a result of the Cotswold Line being singled the former up platform is the only one now in use for both up and down trains. It is served by Great Western Railway trains between London Paddington and . It is also the nearest station to the towns of Woodstock and Witney. There is a passenger-operated ticket machine (card payments only; not cash) at the entrance to the station platform. The station has two car parks, which between them provide 241 car spaces. However, on most weekdays the number of passengers parking at Hanborough exceeds the number of spaces available. Oxford Bus Museum is just east of the station, in the former goods yard. History 19th century The Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway opened the station on 4 June 1853, and it was originally named Handborough. Between 1854 and 1861 it served as a junction for Oxford-bound passengers changing from through trains between Worcester and , for whom a refreshment room was provided. 20th century On 30 January 1965, by which time the station boards read "Handborough for Blenheim", it was the destination for the state funeral train of Sir Winston Churchill hauled by Battle of Britain class locomotive No. 34051 Winston Churchill. In his commentary on the funeral for BBC television, Richard Dimbleby said the report The Reshaping of British Railways had scheduled the station for closure. In fact the station remained open, but in January 1966 it was de-staffed. Thereafter the standard OW&WR wooden station building and goods shed were demolished. On 28 September 1992 the station was renamed Hanborough. Toward the end of the 1990s the number of passengers slowly increased, until reaching an estimated total of almost 63,000 in 1999–2000. 21st century Passenger numbers fluctuated until 2005–06, when the Office of the Rail Regulator estimated that the total number for that year was just above 70,000. The number of passengers increased rapidly to 2015-16 was more than 271,000, but fell back to 224,000 following the opening of Oxford Parkway before recovering to 275,000 in 2019-20. More than 250 passengers a day come by car, but the original car park had only 50 spaces and by 2011 it had been overwhelmed. In August 2011 First Great Western and a house-building company jointly proposed a new