Kelmscott and Langford railway station

The station was opened on 4 November 1907 by the Great Western Railway,^[2][3][4] the only one to be opened on the line during peacetime by the Great Western.^[5] It was shown in early timetables as "Kelmscott and Langford Platform", which also appeared in the Official Handbook of Stations until 1949.^[3] It was supposed to serve the villages of Langford and Kelmscott but in reality was a considerable distance from both.^[6][7] Langford is 1⁄2 mile (0.8 km) to the north, and Kelmscott is 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) to the south.^[8]

It was essentially a staffed railway halt with minimal passenger facilities.^[9] Situated in rural countryside next to the Langford to Kelmscott road, the station comprised a 300-foot (91 m) long concrete platform and an unusual station building made from two standard corrugated iron Pagoda huts which were bolted together.^[10] This was probably the longest building of its type in the country.^[5] A single siding operated from the nearby ground frame was brought into use behind the platform for the purpose of loading and unloading cattle traffic and farm machinery on 9 July 1928.^{[9][8][11][12]} No signals, goods shed or crane were provided and the small goods yard was only able to handle cattle and coal class traffic in full wagonloads.^[13][14][12]

Perhaps owing to its inconvenient location, the station was the least used on the line.^[6] Just 3,038 tickets were issued in 1913 and 3,654 in 1923, by some distance the lowest.^[15] The station was closed along with the East Gloucestershire Railway on 18 June 1962.^{[2][3][16][17][18]}

Traces of the station's platform, lampposts and nameboard posts that remained in September 1987^[14] were entirely cleared by the local farmer except for a pole which once held the station's lighting.^[19][7] Large stretches of the trackbed towards Alvescot remain intact.^[19] The station's access road remains in use by the farmer.^[7]