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Bicester North railway station

Railway station in Oxfordshire, England

Summary

Railway station in Oxfordshire, England

Field	Value
name	Bicester North
symbol_location	gb
symbol	rail
image	Bicester North station high southbound.jpg
caption	The station in 2011, after completion of widening work on the southbound platform
borough	Bicester, District of Cherwell
country	England
grid_name	Grid reference
grid_position
manager	Chiltern Railways
platforms	2
code	BCS
classification	DfT category D
original	Great Western Railway
pregroup	GWR
postgroup	GWR
opened	1 July 1910
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Bicester North ( ) is a station on the Chiltern Main Line, one of two stations serving the market town of Bicester in Oxfordshire. Services operated by Chiltern Railways run south to and north to , and .

Bicester North is one of Bicester's two stations. The other is on the Oxford to London Marylebone Line.

History

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 time.

The station was transferred from the Western Region of British Rail to the London Midland Region on 24 March 1974.

Services

The Monday-to-Friday off-peak service consists of:

2 trains per hour to , typically calling at (once per hour) and only
1 train per hour to
1 train per hour to , extending to once every two hours and during peak times.

Improvement works

In 2010 the down line through the station was realigned for higher speeds, as part of the Evergreen 3 project. In 2011, the up (southbound) platform was widened, using the trackbed of the former through lines.

Operator and routes

References

(May 1974). "Notes and News: Transfer of Marylebone-Banbury services". IPC Transport Press Ltd.
(December 2010). "Evergreen 3 progress". [[Modern Railways]].

Wikipedia Source

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