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Interesting snippet on the grouting work done in the winter in https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/23495390.nuneham-viaduct-early-repairs-stopped-disruption/

I'm looking to travel from Moreton-in-Marsh to Birmingham (New Street or Moor Street). For an off-peak day trip, based on https://www.brfares.com/!fares?orig=MIM&dest=0418 it looks like there's a crazy-expensive "via Oxford" ticket, or a much more reasonable "via Worcester" option Checking...

Does anyone know how busy the Marylebone trains are leaving Oxford around 8am this week, after last week's reported overcrowding? And how frequent the buses are + how long the queues tend to be? My wife's off to London tomorrow, and I'm trying to help her weight up the options. RRB looks to be...

Surely the "fix" is to run trains from Oxford as far as Radley, then transfer to buses for Didcot there? What Radley Station lacks in infrastructure it more than makes up for in lack of road traffic to affect the RRBs!

Oxford Mail are reporting that the Botley Road closures are now happening for 6 months this year and next, with the bridge works slipping a year to August 2024 - https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/23355748.botley-road-new-date-revealed-key-oxford-closure/

They've now moved the RRB point from Moreton to Kingham The problem with Charlbury as the train/RRB point is the weight limit on the bridge between the town and the station

The Oxford Mail are reporting the new dates still aren't finalised, and aren't expected to be for a couple more weeks at least - https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/23226127.botley-road-closure-timetable-oxford-still-not-finalised/

The Summer/Autumn newsletter has quite a bit about the construction progress, and when they're intending to lay track where. One summary on the overall timelines was:

The Oxford Mail are reporting that there'll need to be a 14 week closure over the winter, possibly over Christmas, for preparatory work to move utilities before the bridge work next summer: https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/21136192.14-week-closure-botley-road-oxford-hit-christmas-shopping/

I can't see how to add PlusBus tickets - at what point should I be looking for the buttons to add them on?

Is there a trick for getting the LNER website to offer PlusBus on the return day of a multi-day ticket? Normally I use GWR who will happily (once you tell them what day you want to come back on) offer you PlusBus for both the outward and return days. However, I've got a good offer for booking...

Tomorrow I need to travel from near the St Pauls tram stop / northly entrance to Snow Hill station to Birmingham International. Normally I'd hop on the tram round to New Street, and then train from there. However, with the trams infrequent and only running to Bull Street, I was thinking it might...

I'm currently on the 15:14 Cross Country service 1O20 from Birmingham International heading south. As seems to be normal for when I'm taking one of these, it's running late, as the Northampton train before it was very late. The train before is the 1W90, 1453 Birmingham New Street - Northampton...

This weekend, we want to head from Oxford into London on day 1, spend two days taking a bunch of different tubes / buses / trains, then train back to Oxford late on day 2. However, I'm struggling to figure out the best way to get the tickets for that.... Two of us travelling together, covered...

Maybe we should dust off some of those oh-so-very-popular ideas for an inner ring-road, including across Christchurch Meadow? ;) For those who haven't come across this historic plan and associated controversy, see...

I don't need to travel between Banbury and Oxford in the evening very much, but in the past the Oxford Evening Out has saved me a noticable amount. So, with another evening trip coming up, I googled for the ticket, saw it still seemed to offer a saving against an off-peak return, and wanted to...

According to NRE, the Oxford Evening Out rover ticket can be bought online - "This ticket can either be bought on the day or in advance from a station ticket office, online, by telephone" Does anyone know of any websites that actually let you do so? I can't seem to get the GWR site to show it...

Other than just buying a 7 day season ticket, are there any tricks to bring down the cost of travelling from Tisbury to London, on day returns at peak times? (eg to arrive in London for 9ish, heading back 5ish) An Anytime Day return is currently £104.30, whilst a 7 day season to London...

Has anyone heard about any train-length tweaks for the May timetable, based on the actual usage seen from December? And/or easements to peak time restrictions? (Selfishly, I'm interested in stuff from Oxford, eg 1P19 @ 09:02, used to be off-peak but now the last peak service, 9 coaches and...

Current plans from the Taskforce are for a section of single track at the Oxford end, between Hanborough and Charlbury (current start of the double track), and at the Worcester end between Pershore and near Foregate Street. I think those two sections save some noticable costs in terms of bridges...