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The last trains ran late on 14 February 2014 [9] before the station was closed to allow upgrade of the line between Oxford and Bicester. The reopening, first planned for May 2015, [ 10 ] [ 11 ] was delayed until 25 October 2015 with the official ceremony the following day.
Trains to Bicester Village, Oxford Parkway and Oxford began in 2015, following completion of the Bicester chord allowing Chiltern line services to run from Marylebone to Oxford. The Monday - Friday off-peak service consists of: 2 trains per hour to London Marylebone; 1 train per hour to Oxford; 1 train per hour to Birmingham Snow Hill
Chiltern Railways reopened the line between the new Oxford Parkway station and Bicester on 26 October 2015. [4] The timetable for December 2015 to May 2016 has two trains per hour between Oxford Parkway and London Marylebone, all of which stop at Bicester Village but only a few at Islip. [9]
The scheme included loop lines from Bicester to Oxford and Banbury to Rugby. [2] A third company, Mark Huish's Grand Junction Railway, supported the GWR's schemes as a means of forcing the London and Birmingham to merge with it; it proposed a Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway which would join with the Oxford and Rugby at Fenny Compton. [3]
Bicester railway station may refer to one of two railway stations in the town of Bicester (United Kingdom): Bicester North railway station , on the Chiltern main line between London and Birmingham Bicester Village railway station , which sees a limited service to Oxford (previously Bicester Town 1987–2015, Bicester London Road 1954–1987 ...
The station closed to rail traffic on 15 February 2014 (the last trains having run late on 14 February) in order to allow upgrade of the line between Oxford and Bicester. Reopening was planned for May 2015, [3] [4] but was later delayed until 25 October 2015. The rebuilt Islip station has 2 platforms, with a car park for 23 spaces.
The track between Wolvercote Tunnel (on the outskirts of Oxford) and Bicester Village has been rebuilt and a new station constructed at Water Eaton, named Oxford Parkway. [20] [21] The scheme includes additional platforms at Bicester, Islip and Oxford. The Oxford line was re-opened in stages during 2015 and 2016, with services from London ...
The 'Bicester cut-off' between Ashendon Junction and Aynho Junction was opened in 1910 - the final main-line stretch of route to be completed in Britain until the 1980s. . This provided a shortening of the London-to-Birmingham GWR main rail line, and also gave Bicester a station with direct London trains for the first