Blisworth
Towcester
Wappenham
Helmdon
Banbury
Helmdon station site 2008
A modest beginning was made with the Northampton and Banbury
Junction Railway, authorised in 1863, as a first step. Hopes were
raised two years later with an Act authorising an extension
westwards to Chipping Norton and Blockley, and in the next year,
1866, a further extension was authorised w…