Bicester Town railway station

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Bicester Town station is one of two railway stations serving the town of Bicester in Oxfordshire, the other being Bicester North railway station. The station is currently under the operation of First Great Western. The station was called Bicester London Road up until its closure 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 80s until Network South East reopened it in 1987 as the terminus of the line from Oxford. The station has one platform and the line to the east of the station is still in use for 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[1].

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.