Bicester North railway station

Bicester North (/ˈbɪstər/ ⓘ BIST-ər) is a station on the Chiltern Main Line, one of two stations serving the market town of Bicester in Oxfordshire.

Services operated by Chiltern Railways run south to London Marylebone and north to Banbury, Birmingham Snow Hill and Stratford-upon-Avon.

The other is Bicester Village on the Oxford to London Marylebone Line.

This provided a shortening of the London-to-Birmingham GWR main rail line, and also gave Bicester a station with direct London trains for the first time.

[1] The Monday-to-Friday off-peak service consists of: In 2010 the down line through the station was realigned for higher speeds, as part of the Evergreen 3 project.

Station entrance in 1961
A view of Bicester North station from the footbridge in 2010