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Oxford railway station is a mainline railway station, one of two [a] serving the city of Oxford, England. It is about 0.5 miles (800 m) west of the city centre, north-west of Frideswide Square and the eastern end of Botley Road. It is the busiest station in Oxfordshire, and the fourth busiest in South East England. [1]
The station is part of Project Evergreen 3, funded and managed by Chiltern Railways.It is served every half-hour by trains from London Marylebone.Chiltern Railways opened the station in October 2015 for trains towards Bicester and London Marylebone, with services to Oxford railway station beginning in December 2016, delayed from Spring 2016 as locals objected to the extra noise that would be ...
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Beaver House, on the corner of Rewley Road and Hythe Bridge Street, was erected in 1971–72, designed by the Oxford Architects Partnership. [4] [5] It is clad in reeded concrete with a glass curtain wall facing Hythe Bridge Street. Rewley Road fire station [6] is on the eastern side of the road, opposite the Said Business School.
The station opened as Oxford Road on 20 July 1849 and was the headquarters of the Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway (MSJAR) until 1904. [12] The station was built on the site of 'Little Ireland', a slum "of a worse character than St Giles", [13] in which about four thousand people had lived in "measureless filth and stench" [14] (according to Friedrich Engels in The Condition ...
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It would run from a junction with the Oxford Railway line south of Oxford, with a new through Oxford station nearer to the centre of the city, through Banbury and Fenny Compton to a junction at Rugby. The Oxford and Rugby Railway Act 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. clxxxviii) was given royal assent on 4 August 1845.
The Great Western Railway had opened its station in 1852 on an adjacent site, the location of the current Oxford railway station, and the two stations came under joint management in 1933. Rewley Road was closed to passengers by the London Midland Region of British Railways on 1 October 1951 and services transferred to the ex-GWR station. [ 2 ]