Oxford Parkway is a park and ride station at Water Eaton in Oxfordshire. The station is between
Oxford and
Islip and is on the line to
Bicester Village.
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| Chiltern 168 107 arrives with a London Marylebone bound service |
| Information |
| Type: |
National Rail
(Oxford-Bicester Line) |
| Station code: |
OXP |
| Opened: |
2015 |
| Platforms: |
2 |
The new station was financed and opened by Chiltern Railways in 2015 as part of it's Evergreen 3 project which introduced services between
Oxford and
London Marylebone. The station is on the site of the short lived
Oxford Banbury Road terminus [1] of the Buckinghamshire Railway which closed in 1851 and also a grain silo which was closed in the 1980s.
The station was built next to an existing park and ride and bus interchange site at Water Eaton and indeed the first name of the station mooted was
Water Eaton Parkway. The main station building is in the same blue tile style as
Bicester Village which was rebuilt as part of the same project and line upgrade. Access between the platforms is via a footbridge.
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| View of the footbridge between the platforms |
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| View down the platform, car park to the right |
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| Chiltern 168 323 departs heading for Oxford |
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| Main station building |
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| Station sign |
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Oxford to Bletchley (Middleton Press, 2005) Map. VII
