Today’s Oxford Times and this week’s Bicester Advertiser both have articles about the proposed upgrade to the Oxford-Bicester service. The Oxford Times has comments from OBRAG chairman Ian East, in particular about services stopping at Islip – click here to read the article.
The article in the Bicester Advertiser urges users to have their say on the type of replacement services available while the line in closed. The text of this article can be found here:
Bicester Advertiser 2010-02-11
The Bicester Advertiser also has the following advance warning:
“Rail passengers are being warned that services from Oxford will be affected by engineering work over the weekend of February 20-21. The line north of Oxford will be closed both days, with buses replacing FGW trains to Islip and Bicester Town”
This is also on the FGW website (although this mentions engineering on Saturday only).
The details of the engineering works and replacement buses are not clear either by looking at the FGW site or the posters at stations (which currently obscure the timetable!).
Times for relief buses on Saturdays are shown but FGW have failed to make clear that buses on Sundays will be timed as trains would have been. The engineering works extend over next two weekends (Sat & Sun) and then remaining Sundays through March.
We have asked for the posters to be replaced with clearer ones.