A LITTLE-USED railway station in an Oxfordshire village was filled with people at its 75th birthday celebrations.

Morris dancers, music, cake and ale greeted passengers arriving at Finstock station from Oxford on Thursday.

The party was held 75 years to the day from when the station was opened by the Great Western Railway.

Among those alighting on Thursday was Rosamund Snow, from Marston, Oxford, who lived in the west Oxfordshire village between the ages of four and 14 and helped celebrate the station’s 50th anniversary when she was just 13.

She said: “It was lovely to see it again. It felt really welcoming.”

Just two trains a day stop at the halt – the least used in Oxfordshire, with just 1,095 passengers a year.