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The Varsity Line (or Oxford to Cambridge Line) is an informal name for the railway route that used to link the English university cities of Oxford and Cambridge, operated successively by the London and North Western Railway, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, and British Railways. It was sometimes called the "Brain Line", a pun on main line. Services were withdrawn from the – and – sections at the end of 1967, even though the line had not been listed for closure as part of the Beeching Axe in 1963. (The Oxford – Bicester section reopened in 1987 until mid 2014, when it was closed again for reconstruction.) , the only section still in regular passenger use is the Marston Vale Line operation from Bletchley to Bedford. Work is under way to reopen an upgraded Oxford to Bicester Line from Oxford to and open a newly-constructed short section from Bicester Town to the Chiltern Main Line as part of Project Evergreen 3 and from Bicester to Bedford as part of the East West Rail Link. The Bicester – Bletchley section, though extant, is disused. Work has begun to reinstate this section. Network Rail anticipates that the complete Oxford – Bedford route will be ready for use by 2019, although electrification east of Bletchley will have to wait for a later phase. In May 2014, Network Rail announced that the electrified section of the line will be opened to running, the current top speed for InterCity services. It is proposed that CrossCountry services, along with Chiltern Railways and London Midland services, will use the route. In the absence of a rail service, Stagecoach in Bedford's X5 coach service provides a passenger service by road between Oxford and Cambridge via Bicester, Milton Keynes and Bedford. ==History== The line was built in two stages, the first by the Buckinghamshire Railway between and Bedford in 1845. and the second by the Bedford and Cambridge Railway which opened on 7 July 1862. 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「Varsity Line」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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