 With the completion of the first stage of the redoubling of the Cotswold Line from to a point east of Charlbury, the second platform, decommissioned in 1971, was reinstated and returned to service on 6 June 2011.Charlbury and Kingham are two of the stations on the Cotswold Line that had their platforms lengthened to accommodate longer GWR Class 802 units, which are 9 carriages long, 1 carriage longer than the longest trains that previously used the station.Charlbury station is one of the only two-platform stations on the Cotswold Line to have step-free access to both platforms.