The station is based on that at Culham on the Didcot to Oxford line. Previously called 'Abingdon Road', in the 1920s and 1930s Culham Station catered for passenger and goods traffic with sidings and a goods shed.
There is much more about this building and the model on the Friends Place page
Culham Station (earlier called 'Abingdon Road') is on the Didcot to Oxford railway line. The prototypes for some buildings were at Steventon Station and at West Ruislip.
The station buildings (from Culham) were mostly researched in 1955 by Roye England, Paddy Burridge and Martin and Mary Heard. The models were built by Steven Clinch with involvement also by Stephen Williams, Malcolm Smith, Alan Butcher and Bob Logan. The station hotel was built in 1988-1995 by Nick Britton.
The prototype signal box was chosen because it is the ‘right size’ for the layout that the box controls at Pendon Parva. It was modelled by Stuart Johnson between 1985-87.
Booker's Corn Store (Steventon) was researched in 1953 and built by Nicholas de Courtais, Ron Rising and Alan Butcher.
In 1844 the GWR opened its broad-gauge Didcot to Oxford railway line with an intermediate station named ‘Abingdon Road’, later being renamed as ‘Culham’. The station catered for passenger and goods traffic with sidings and a goods shed. Goods services were withdrawn in 1965 although passenger traffic continues today. The Brunel designed ticket office remains and is a Grade II listed building, although not now in railway use.
Pendon 'renamed' it Pendon Parva having selected it for the diorama and started researching the site in 1953. It was selected as a typical railway group, at the time comprising the station with all its associated buildings and other facilities, the Railway Hotel, station cottages and a coal and haulage merchant’s yard. All of these are to be seen at Pendon.
