Bicester Town railway station

All you want to know about Bicester Town railway station

Location
Bicester Town

Bicester Town railway station in 1979
Place	Bicester
Local authority	Cherwell
Operations
Station code	BIT
Managed by	First Great Western.
Platforms in use	1
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail
Annual Rail Passenger Usage
2004/05 *	50,197
2005/06 *	48,685
2006/07 *	43,950
History
1 October 1850	Opened (Bicester)
March 1954	Renamed (Bicester London Road)
1 January 1968	Closed
11 May 1987	Reopened and renamed (Bicester Town)
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Bicester Town from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Bicester Town is one of two railway stations serving the town of Bicester in Oxfordshire; the other being Bicester North. The station is located 11¾ miles northeast of Oxford, and is operated by First Great Western.

The station was called "Bicester London Road" until its closure, along with the rest of the Oxford-Bletchley section of the Varsity Line, in December 1968. The station was used by several excursion trains through the 1970s and 1980s, before being reopened by Network SouthEast in 1987, as the terminus of the Oxford to Bicester Line.

1 Infrastructure
2 Services
3 References
4 External links

Infrastructure

The station has one platform, and the line to the east is used only by freight. There are plans, in particular by the East West Rail Consortium, to extend the Oxford-Bicester service to Winslow and Bletchley in the future.

There is another track in front of the platform, aside from the passenger/freight running line. This is in fact the very long reversing siding for the Bicester Military Railway, serving the local MOD depot.^[1]

In August 2008, Chiltern Railways announced a proposal to construct a quarter-of-a-mile link between Bicester Town and the Chiltern Main Line, to allow a new Oxford to London service via High Wycombe. It is hoped that, if approval is granted for the scheme, services will start in 2012.^[2]