166218 speeds through Appleford station with the 11:30 Oxford to Paddington Thames Trains service on 13 April 2002. Until recently the station was noteworthy for retaining its original Great Western Railway pagoda corrugated iron shelters, which were provided when the station opened on 11 September 1933 as Appleford Halt. This was at a time when the GWR was trying to combat increasing competition from local buses. Interestingly, there had previously been a station on the site, which was opened when the line to Oxford was opened in 1844. However, it was closed just a few years later and the residents of Appleford had to wait nearly ninety years for its replacement!