map of railways around King's Sutton (bottom left, in yellow) The
Great Western Railway built the — section of the
Oxford and Rugby Railway between 1845 and 1850; however, the GWR did not open a station at King's Sutton until 1872. By 1881, the arrival of the
Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway, via , had made King's Sutton a
junction.
British Railways (BR) withdrew passenger services between King's Sutton and Chipping Norton in 1951 and closed the B&CDR line to
freight traffic in 1964. The station was reduced to an unstaffed halt from 2 November 1964. BR demolished the station building and removed King's Sutton station's
footbridge in the 1960s and replaced it with a signal-controlled
barrow crossing at the north end of the platform. An incident in early 2005, where a passenger was nearly hit by an express train, saw the northbound platform closed for a short period whilst security guards were brought in to man the crossing. This led to work starting on a new bridge in late 2005 and completion in May 2006. The old passenger shelter on the
up platform was replaced by a new
plastic and
metal bus-shelter. A late night robbery in 2001 led
Chiltern Railways to raise security concerns. As a result,
CCTV cameras were installed in 2002. ==Services==