Bicester North railway station

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Bicester North

The station, with a Chiltern Railways train heading for London Marylebone.

Location

Place

Bicester

Local authority

Cherwell

Operations

Station code

BCS

Managed by

Chiltern Railways

Platforms in use

Live departures and station information from National Rail

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

0.703 million

2005/06 *

0.673 million

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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Bicester North from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.

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Bicester North is a station on the Chiltern Main Line, and is one of two stations serving Bicester. Services, operated by Chiltern Railways, run south to London Marylebone and north to Banbury, Birmingham Snow Hill and Stratford-upon-Avon.

Bicester North is the main station in Bicester, the smaller station being Bicester Town, which is the terminus of the branch from Oxford.

[edit] Services

The typical off-peak weekday service consists of three or four trains per hour to and from London Marylebone. One service per hour is non-stop to Marylebone, taking around 55 minutes to cover the 88 km (54¾ miles). The other services call at various intermediate destinations such as Princes Risborough and High Wycombe and can take up to 15 minutes longer. Two services per hour continue northwards to Birmingham Snow Hill, taking around 1 hour 20 minutes. The remaining services either terminate at Bicester North or continue to Banbury or Stratford-upon-Avon.

At weekends, there are generally three trains per hour to London, with two continuing to Birmingham.