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September 10, 2024

To mark its 180th anniversary the Old Ticket Office at Culham will open to the public as part of this year’s Heritage open Days on September 14th & 15th

This year Heritage Open Days celebrates Routes, Networks & Connections, and this will provide a rare opportunity to see inside an original Brunel designed broad gauge station building.

The old ticket office at Culham is one of the best preserved of Brunel’s characteristic and charmingly designed small country station buildings, and the only survivor of this particular Tudor Revival design.

The office is Grade II* listed and retains many of its original features including, large fireplace, glass ticket window, unique architectural details and original 1844 work tops. On display will be original signal box equipment, models of local coal wagons, and much more with some items of memorabilia on sale and many free souvenirs to take away including postcards, colouring sheets, tickets and our 32-page illustrated Discovery Trail booklet.

Keen model makers can also download free model sheets of the old ticket office from the website.

Come and explore inside the building and its surroundings using the Discovery Trail booklet, you may be surprised to see just how much there is to discover. See if you can find where a bullet ricocheted from the ticket counter when a passenger was shot in 1868!

The Old Ticket Office is on Platform 2, Culham Station OX14 3BT. Free parking is available both by the ticket office and on the opposite side of the tracks at The Railway Inn. The station will also be served by certain local buses and trains on Saturday.

For more information about the Old Ticket see Culham Ticket Office


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