 The late James Miller, long-serving station master at Oxford railway station, received widespread recognition for his devoted service in the post, including civic decoration, a public-subscription retirement gift, the award of the British Empire Medal, and the naming of a carriage siding after him.In the Beeching cuts of the 1960s many small stations were closed and the station master's house, along with other railway property, sold off.Typically, these buildings retained their original name and in many communities the "Station Master's House" can still be found as a private dwelling or converted into a restaurant.