Railfuture meeting Oct 2010

October 14th, 2010

Railfuture Thames Valley are meeting at the Methodist Church Hall, Victoria Road, Bicester at 11:30 on Saturday 23 October 2010. The speaker will be Ian Baxter of Chiltern Railways. A poster is available to view here.

FGW Customer Liaison Panel

October 14th, 2010

Our First Great Western Customer Liaison Panel member is now Chris Bates.

If you have any issues to take up with FGW directly, you can contact the Customer Liaison Panel using the email address customer.panel@firstgroup.com. It would be useful if you could also cc OBRAG using one of our contact addresses.

Timetable changes Oct 2010

October 6th, 2010

On Saturday 9 and Saturday 16 October 2010 a revised timetable will be in operation between Oxford and Bicester Town due to changes to main line services in the Oxford area.
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Council wins top national rail award

September 27th, 2010

Oxfordshire County Council has scooped a top prize at the national Community Rail Awards held by the Association of Community Rail Partnerships. The authority and train operator First Great Western took the coveted top prize in the ‘Best Community Rail Event’ for the launch of the Bicester Link in May 2009.
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Date set for inquiry into new rail link

July 26th, 2010

THE public inquiry into Chiltern Railway’s £260m Oxford-Bicester-London rail link will start on 2 November 2010.

For more details, click here to read the article from the Bicester Advertiser.