 The Great Western Railway took over the B&CDR on 1 July 1897, but for nearly twenty years, through trains running between and needed to reverse at Chipping Norton Junction.The reversal was inconvenient for trains which did not need to call at Chipping Norton Junction, so for their benefit the GWR built a bridge to carry through trains between Banbury and Cheltenham over the Oxford and Worcester line; it opened to goods trains on 8 January 1906 and to passenger trains on 1 May 1906.The station was renamed "Kingham" on 1 May 1909.