Oxford Parkway (OXP)

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.

Chiltern 165 037 arrives at Oxford Parkway



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 to be mooted was Water Eaton Parkway. The main station building is in the same blue tile style as Bicester Village, which was rebuilt (and renamed) as part of the same project and line upgrade. Access between the platforms is via a footbridge.

View down the platform

Footbridge and main building

165 024 prepares to depart

The main building with it's blue tile design

Overhead view of 165 002



[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Oxford to Bletchley (Middleton Press, 2005) Map. VII