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The CLPG's first charter train since 2019 will be on Saturday, April 22nd, starting from Oxford at 06.00 and picking up at the main Cotswold Line stations to Worcester Shrub Hill, then running to Paignton, with calls to set down passengers en route at Taunton and Exeter St David's. The return...

Wychavon District Council's executive has agreed to put £500,000 towards the cost of a new £1.5m footbridge over the Cotswold Line at Pershore station, to link the platform with a new £1.5m car park with 300 spaces that the council will build on land it owns north of the station...

Hitachi Rail has been chosen to develop a new digital signalling system to replace the Gloucester area panel. https://www.railengineer.co.uk/hitachi-rail-awarded-contract-to-design-digital-signalling-solution-to-improve-reliability-and-safety-for-gloucester-area/

GWR and the town council in Moreton-in-Marsh have jointly purchased the town's disused Royal British Legion Club for £1.1m to use the site for an 'integrated transport hub' and extra car and cycle parking spaces. It is in the angle of the northern end of the station car park and the approach...

Porterbook leasing has agreed to take over the running of the Long Marston site, on the boundary of Warwickshire and Worcestershire, from next year. Network Rail has recently replaced the rickety old track on the branch from Honeybourne, so looks like it could get a lot busier in future...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/ideas-for-improving-the-north-cotswold-line.169793/ A one-hour House of Commons Westminster Hall debate about the Cotswold Line and the task force report took place on Wednesday. The task force report has now gone to the DfT - it...

The Cotswold Line Promotion Group and Pathfinder Railtours are operating an Oxford to Appleby train on the August Bank Holiday Monday, August 26. Starts from Oxford at 05.30, calling at the main stations along the Cotswold Line to pick up passengers, with a 66 in charge until Worcester Shrub...

West Midlands Railway is asking passengers for their views on plans for a ticket barrier line and other alterations in the street level concourse area. At the station on Friday afternoon, with an opportunity to comment online as well...

If anyone is interested Closing date is February 15 https://jobs.deutschebahngroup.careers/jobs/JobDetail/Trainee-Train-Manager/35388?utm_source=Indeed&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=Indeed&idOrigine=1522

Chiltern Journeycheck at 9.30am: 36 cancellations due to crew shortages, which I believe amounts to more than 10% of Chiltern services due to operate on a typical Saturday. Good job Spurs are playing at Huddersfield this afternoon, not at Wembley. https://www.journeycheck.com/chilternrailways/...

£220,000 to be spent - money from GWR Customers and Communities Improvement Fund and from developer building 1,500 houses at the racecourse. http://info.westberks.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=35330

No detail so far on the impact on services, but GWR has posted dates on its website for weekend - and October half-term - work to extend platforms at the main stations between Oxford and Worcester to accommodate seven IET coaches. At Kingham only they will be for six coaches, so only one...

A green GWR HST reached Stratford yesterday on an Okerail charter from Okehampton - with 43188 and 43093 and set LA15. Pictures here by Peter Tandy of the train at Stratford-upon-Avon station, Stratford Parkway and the empty stock at Hatton on the way to Banbury for stabling...

The Cotswold Line Promotion Group website is showing some signs of life after a long period of being dormant. A new post has appeared today about a special steam train the group is chartering on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway on the evening of Saturday, April 21, as part of the...

Text is taken from First Group news item, linked to below The video features Austin Hughes, who wrote the training programme and is autistic.

Little bit of history achieved yesterday. http://broadwayextensionblog.blogspot.co.uk

Since previous threads about the Oxford area are closed/not strictly related to the following, thought it best to start a new thread. Much more of the steelwork for the new canopy at the station between platforms 2 and 3 is now in place, with the supporting arms attached to the spine and...

Mod Note: Split from this thread. Diagrams for Class 800s have started to appear in the system for October and November, according to poster Adelante_CCT at the Great Western Passengers' Forum. http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=10150.1035 From October 16 07:00...

Tickets are now on general sale for this year's Cotswold Line Promotion Group charter train, which will take a GWR HST to Minehead, using the West Somerset Railway, repeating a charter from 2010. Train is on Saturday, September 23. Runs out from Oxford (07.45 start) via a reversal at Worcester...

Ascott-under-Wychwood station on the Cotswold Line gets some extra calls on Saturdays in the run-up to Christmas again this year, starting this Saturday and continuing until December 17. https://www.ascott-under-wychwood.org.uk/2016/11/21/christmas-trains-2016/