Bicester Town railway station

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Bicester Town

Bicester Town railway station in 1979

Location

Place

Bicester

Local authority

Cherwell

Operations

Station code

BIT

Managed by

First Great Western.

Platforms in use

Live departures and station information from National Rail

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

50,197

2005/06 *

48,685

History

1 October 1850

Opened (Bicester)

March 1954

Renamed (Bicester London Road)

1 January 1968

Closed

11 May 1987

Reopened and renamed (Bicester Town)

National Rail - UK railway stations

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

* 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.

UK Railways Portal

Bicester Town railway 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. It is 19 km (11¾ miles) north east of Oxford.

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 1980s 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. [[2]]