Oxford Parkway railway station

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Oxford Parkway National Rail
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Location
Place Water Eaton
Local authority Cherwell
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Grid reference SP501119
Operations
Station code OXP
Managed by Chiltern Railways
Number of platforms 2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
History
25 October 2015 Opened[1]
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Oxford Parkway railway station is a railway station at Water Eaton, Oxfordshire, on the railway line between Oxford and Islip. Full regular weekday service began on Monday 26 October 2015,[2] although the first passengers travelled the previous day on a Sunday timetable.[3]

The station, whose name was changed in September 2013 from the provisional "Water Eaton Parkway",[4][5] lies between Kidlington and Oxford beside the existing Water Eaton park-and-ride site.[6][6] It serves Kidlington, north Oxford and nearby villages. The station forms part of a multi-modal transport interchange node, connecting travellers by bus, cycle, on foot and by car with rail transport. It is also intended to attract park-and-ride traffic from the busy A34, A40 and A44 roads.

Services to Oxford will start in December 2016.

Description

The station is part of Project Evergreen 3, funded and managed by Chiltern Railways. It is served every half-hour by trains from London Marylebone. Chiltern Railways opened the station in October 2015 for trains towards Bicester and London Marylebone, with services to Oxford railway station beginning in December 2016, delayed from Spring 2016 as locals objected to the extra noise that would be caused.[7][8] The journey time to London is about an hour.

The East West Rail Consortium's planned rail service between Oxford and Milton Keynes Central and Bedford Midland will also serve Oxford Parkway.[9]

The station is on the site of the Buckinghamshire Railway's temporary Oxford Banbury Road terminus (1850–51), and north-east of the site of the former Oxford Road Halt (1905–26). In 1942 a Government grain silo was built next to the site as part of a Second World War network to concentrate scarce food and distribute it by rail. It was in use until the late 1980s.[10] In October 2013 Chiltern Railways had it demolished as part of site preparation for the new station and car park.[11]

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The station in November 2015, soon after opening

Water Eaton Park-and-Ride is immediately adjacent, with bus services to central Oxford[12] and to the Headington hospitals (Monday to Friday only).[13]

The station lies on National Cycle Route 51, which links Oxford to Bicester and further East.[14] Oxford Parkway has covered two-level parking for 152 pedal cycles adjacent to the entrance, additional to the existing cycle parking at the nearby Park & Ride. It has CCTV surveillance.[15]

The car park has 815 standard spaces, plus 41 spaces for passengers with reduced mobility. There is realtime information about remaining available spaces.[16] There is a fee to park a car[6] but the first hour is free. There are also spaces for 30 motorcycles.

Purchase of rail travel tickets is by machine; there is no ticket office at the station,[15] but there is an information desk. Toilet and refreshment facilities are also present.

Construction

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Platforms under construction in April 2015, looking towards Islip

Building of the station began in late October 2014 and was sufficiently advanced for services to begin 12 months later. Ancillary construction is still under way.[17]

Services

Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
Terminus   Chiltern Railways
London Marylebone – Oxford		   Islip
or Bicester Village
  Future services  
Oxford   Chiltern Railways
London Marylebone – Oxford		   Islip
or Bicester Village
Oxford   East West Rail Link
Reading – Bedford or Milton Keynes		   Bicester Village

References

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