The most notorious episode in the station's history occurred on 5 December 1927.
‘Two men, heavily masked and each armed with a revolver, were surprised by a railway porter while they were endeavouring to steal the safe from the Stationmaster's office, and they immediately threatened him with their revolvers, bound him and tied him to a chair...’
Little did he or the police investigating the crime realise it, but the two men were criminals on the run, whose subsequent trial would shock the nation every bit as much as any fictional epic of the silent cinema.
The porter was Frederick Charles Castle and he gave the reporter a remarkably lucid and detailed description of his experience...
Don Chapman - Eynsham Record 8 (1991) page 36- (opens in new window)