Bicester North ( ) is a station on the Chiltern Main Line, one of two serving the market town of Bicester, in Oxfordshire, England; the other is . Services operated by Chiltern Railways run south to and north to , and .
History
thumb|275px|The station entrance in 1961|left
The Bicester cut-off, between Ashendon Junction and Aynho Junction, was opened in 1910; it was the last main line stretch of route to be completed in Great Britain until the 1980s. This provided a shortening of the London-to-Birmingham Great Western Railway (GWR) railway line and gave Bicester a station with direct London trains for the first time.
The station was transferred from the Western Region of British Rail to the London Midland Region on 24 March 1974.
In 2010, the down northbound line through the station was realigned for higher speeds, as part of the Evergreen 3 project. In 2011, the up platform was widened, using the trackbed of the former through lines.
Services
Services are operated by Chiltern Railways, which provides the following general Monday-to-Friday off-peak service in trains per hour (tph):
- 2 tph to , typically calling at (once per hour) and only
- 1 tph to
- 1 tph to , with alternate services extending to and at peak times.