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Bicester Village (formerly Bicester Town) is the smaller of two railway stations serving the town of Bicester in Oxfordshire (the larger is ). It is miles north-east of on the Oxford to Bletchley line near its junction with the Chiltern Main Line. The renamed Bicester Village station reopened on 25 October 2015 with trains initially running between Oxford Parkway and London Marylebone. All trains serving it are operated by Chiltern Railways. ==History== The Buckinghamshire Railway, which already had a route between and Banbury, had powers to build a line to Oxford. The first part of this line, from a junction to the west of (at a point which became known as ) as far as , opened on 1 October 1850, and this included a station at Bicester. Originally named "Bicester", the station was renamed "Bicester London Road" in March 1954,〔 although the nameboards were not altered until 20 September 1954. The station was closed, along with the rest of the Oxford – Bletchley section of the Varsity Line, on 1 January 1968.〔 However, the station was used by several excursion trains through the 1970s and 1980s. Network SouthEast reopened the station as "Bicester Town" on 11 May 1987, as the terminus of the Oxford to Bicester Line. From May 2009 First Great Western and Oxfordshire County Council branded the line "The Bicester Link".〔(The Bicester Link )〕 Since then operation of the line has been transferred from FGW to Chiltern Railways. Since 1987 the frequency of trains has varied and passenger numbers have fluctuated accordingly. In the four years 2007–11 more frequent trains increased the total number of passengers using Bicester Town by 258%.〔Office of the Rail Regulator data: see infobox at head of article.〕 The station closed on 15 February 2014 (the last trains having run late on 14 February)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bicester – Oxford )〕 in order to allow upgrade of the line between Oxford and Bicester. The reopening, first planned for May 2015, was delayed until 25 October 2015 with the official ceremony the following day. On 12 March 2015 Chiltern Railways announced that it would rename the station Bicester Village after the nearby designer retail outlet. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bicester Village railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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