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The piece I have seen from Ray Buckton indicated it might be good personally for his members, but a bad move for passengers who attended sporting occasions or visited relatives. No mention back then of shopping of course.

Boxing Day services were back in 1977 when Boxing Day fell on a Monday. They disappeared again in 1980 when as in 1975 Boxing Day was on a Friday. They didn't reappear after that until 1988 (Monday again) - but only to a limited extent. The removal in 1975 was strongly opposed by ASLEF.

Splits at Oxford are also worth investigating - not if like the OP it is your final destination of course.

There are some fare anomalies for various journeys around Paddington-Oxford-Marylebone 'loop' where a longer journey has a cheaper ticket available than a shorter journey contained within it (eg A-C via B is cheaper than B-C), mainly related to whether a not via London fare is available and in...

Peak time capacity is already a problem, if social media grumbling reports are to be believed. Those at Oxford Parkway and Bicester Village that have been used to getting into an empty or half-empty train are finding them near-full on arrival. Still carting round a lot of fresh air in the day...

I thought that too from memory, but couldn't be absolutely sure. Maybe a little gentle reminder needs to be made to Chiltern. As well as considering some fares specific to the route - for example currently the cheapest Didcot to High Wycombe fare is £32 return (ie more expensive than London, as...

Although Chiltern is a company listed in participating in such products as 'Oxfordshire Day Ranger' and 'Oxford Evening Out', this would be in relationship to the limited Chiltern service between Banbury and Oxford starting from Stratford-upon-Avon. They didn't include Banbury to Bicester North...

Didcot Parkway is up 12% as well, so there doesn't appear to be a switch effect from there either.

It is the Bicester to the M1 Option B route for the Expressway that mostly parallels the rail corridor but since they have been careful to only publish schematic diagrams rather than anything more detailed, exactly how closely is not defined. M1-Cambridge is stated to be largely an improvement...

There could potentially be a significant amount of new route build, depending on the option(s) chosen. Some potential sharing of the same corridor as rail too.

In 1994 a thief took a bag from a train at Reading only to find later that it had a 7kg of Semtex in it, although the bomb was unprimed.

I remember an American pilot once making an announcement when leaving Heathrow along the lines of 'sorry for the slow and long taxi to the runway - this was to get around the ongoing airport construction that started at the end of World War 2. We are hoping this will be completed in about thirty...

They seem to care even less about continuity on the Continental programmes compared with the regular ones.

Even odder as he was shown using an OV-chipkaart at a barrier. Maybe he was always paying a 1st class fare ...

Around then was also the 18:00 to Bristol TM, first stop Didcot. I was a regular on that at the time, and rarely wasn't there someone who got out of his/her seat as it approached Reading, with various looks of horror as it dawned it wasn't stopping. I daresay it happens today on the 1742.

Looking at a WR timetable from the mid 1960s shows a very different world. No long distance train after 16:30 stopped at Reading until 19:00 whereas 3 stopped at Didcot. That is if you include the 18:00 which only went on as far as Swindon - but did have a restaurant car. The last through...

This page currently lists all the editions and where they are airing this week, plus the BBC Four ones over the next two weeks: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07xn9fv/broadcasts/2016/09 Looks like a few have a more specific regional focus with "Capitalism and Commerce" being fairly general...

You do not need to have a passport in order to enter Ireland if you are an Irish or UK citizen. However, to avail yourself of this right you may be asked for valid official photo-identification which demonstrates your nationality - which may or may not be a passport.

They might be expected to know more about the public transport needs within their own area. Not to say that they do, mind. They have put a lot of money into improvements around Didcot Parkway and have further plans. The roads from Wantage/Grove to Oxford and Didcot are not the best of course.

Oxfordshire CC hankers after a twice hourly service pattern within the county of Grove-Didcot-Oxford-Bicester. Possible maybe with an extended East-West eventually ...