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I've been re-reading some of these posts, but am still not sure what is meant by TWAO and FCC in this context. The latter is presumably the organisation which runs the Calvert Wate Facility, right?

Whilst at Quainton Road (Bucks railway Centre) on August Bank holiday Monday, I saw an exhibition about the East/West rail Link, which I gather is a plan to reinstate services between Oxford & Cambridge, along the currently mothballed Bicester to Bletcley line, and will include a link between...

In NBC Days, all the regional companies seemed to use Bristol VRs. City of Oxford kept one in particular (OFC901H) in operation a long time. It was often used on the 44 route between Oxford, Woodstock and Chipping Norton, but was later coverted to an open-topper and used on City Sightseeing...

The link in post #5 only brings 'Internal Server Error 500'

Perhaps the first instance of checking your own documents was the introduction of Self-Assesment Tax returns, which must be around 20 years ago by now

This morning I decided to go to Cheltenham, mainly because there was a Record & CD Fair there. To get there meant catching the 10.55AM Stagecoach S3 bus from near my home to just south of the Wolvercote Roundabout in Oxford, and, from there . board the Swanbrook 853 to Cheltenham via Witney...

As a follow-up to my post, does anyone know when the X8 started? It was originally operated by Stagecoach maybe 20 years ago, and at times served other nearby villages icluding Bledington, The Wychwoods, and Cornwell. Since then it has been operated by RH transport, who had two Optare Buses...

As is probably well known by now, the X8 Bus Service linking Chipping Norton, Churchill and Kingham village was withdrawn by Pulhams Coached on 21 July 2017, leaving only an infrequent service operated by Villager Buses, which basically conveys passengers to and from Chippng Norton from the...