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Google earth shows what looks like a dismantled railway line between the old air base at Upper Heyford stretching to the outskirts of the village of Kirtlington, which is only a couple of fields away from the Cherwell Valley line. I can’t find any record of this on the internet. Can anyone...

I’ve recently discovered there was a landslide on the Banbury to Cheltenham line between Hook Norton and Rollright Halt in 1951. According to a number of sites, the landslide was never cleared, and instead, the section of the line between King’s Sutton and Rollright Halt was closed. Since...

Bicester London Road station reopened as Bicester Town station in 1987, 20 years after the line was closed to passenger traffic. The main station building survived intact during the closure, but for some reason it was decided the 140 year old building would be demolished a year or so after the...

I’m looking to find a station, that’s still in use today, which was built to a similar design of the old Brackley station in the photo below. There were many stations built to this design around the Country in the mid to late 1800s, possibly designed by J.W Livock? But it seems most of them...

Should fares be changed on the straight line distance between your start and end point of a journey, even if your train has to has to travel a longer round about journey to complete the trip? For example Oxford and Milton Keynes is about 35miles apart, but due to the 1960s line closures this...

There is a large building project spanning the railway north of Quainton. Does anyone know what's being built? It has 2 large gantries either side of the track linked together with many overhead wires

I've always had an interest in Bicester London Road station and in particular it's buildings, it's also my local station. I beleave it was built by the Buckinghamshire railway company, who also built station buildings in Brackley, Buckingham and Winslow in very similar style. Unfortunately all...

I've been looking into Suffix's on Station names and their meanings. Some of them are fairly obvious distinctions between two stations in the same town. Also the Great Central Railway used a Central Suffix on many of its stations. Does anyone know if the Victoria Suffix has a special meaning...