Network Rail has announced a timetable for the next phase of its strategically significant Oxford Corridor project. While the public eye has fallen on the major improvements to the passenger station in the city, the...Read more
The UK government’s department for transport has approved Network Rail’s plans to expand Oxford Station and provide a corridor for freight operations. The plans will allow an additional twelve freight trains to operate through Oxford...Read more
Public consultation on proposals for a vast new warehouse and rail freight park near Bicester in the Oxfordshire countryside opens this week. A Channel Islands based company, Oxfordshire Railfreight Limited, is preparing plans for a...Read more
Freight has assumed a new and much higher priority in a bold new vision for the line currently under construction to connect the university cities of Oxford and Cambridge. Network Rail has laid out an...Read more
The East West Rail Consortium, which has campaigned to reinstate a railway between Oxford and Cambridge in East Anglia for more than 25 years, has been relaunched as the East West Main Line Partnership. The...Read more
UK’s transport secretary Grant Shapps has launched a 794 million-pound (880 million euros) investment, claiming to boost rail links in the south and north of England. Money has been allocated to develop East West Rail...Read more
An ambitious plan has been put forward to redevelop the station in the centre of Oxford. The city, home to the world famous university as well as significant industrial interests, including the BMW Mini factory,...Read more
