This is a history of the railways of Oxford ,looking at the
operations and development of services , from the opening of the
Oxford Railway by the Great Western on 12 June 1844 through to the
present day. This volume covers the development of the railway
locally, including the London and North Western Buckinghamshire
Railway' from Bletchley, together with the five local branch lines.
The opening of the Great Western / Great Central joint line from
Culworth Junction to Banbury Junction in August 1900 resulted in
the growth of inter regional cross country services passing through
Oxford . The advent of the second world war saw the construction of
a new junction at Oxford North giving for the first time a direct
link from the Great Western to the London Midland & Scottish
Railway branch to Bletchley and beyond. The opening of these two
new junctions saw a considerable increase in both passenger and
freight traffic which resulted in Oxford becoming a major railway
centre . For many years one of the highlights was the arrival and
departure of locomotives on a daily basis from all of the big four
railway companies. Those days are long gone, but today Oxford is as
busy as ever, with passenger services to London operated by Great
Western Railway and Chiltern Trains, and by Cross Country Trains
the South and the North of England.
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