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Banbury Bridge Street station opened on 2 September 1850, some four months after the Buckinghamshire Railway (L&NWR) opened its Banbury Merton Street terminus. When meadows and a by the recently discussed race-course at Grimsbury were sold to the Great Western Railway circa 1850, the owner also sold the other part of his land, north of the Middleton road to the Banbury Freehold Land Society, which was financially backed by Cobb's Bank, to build middle-class houses on, but development was slow at the time and some plots were never built upon . The station was going to be part of the GWR's Oxford & Rugby railway, before the problems with changing gauges at Rugby put paid to that. The 24 mile single track extension from Oxford to Banbury did open, and at first Banbury was just a single platfo