Complex sentence: It was on the Great Northern and London and North Western Joint Railway and opened in 1879 and closed to passengers in 1951 but remained in use for oil deliveries into the 1980s.
Split into simpler sentences: It was on the Great Northern and London and North Western Joint Railway. It opened in 1879 and closed to passengers in 1951, but remained in use for oil deliveries into the 1980s.