Winslow still waits for its first train

More than a year after Phase Two of the long-awaited East-West Rail (EWR) Project to link Oxford and Cambridge was completed, residents in the small Buckinghamshire market town of Winslow still wait for the day when the promised half-hourly trains between Oxford and Milton Keynes begin calling at their shiny new station.

Winslow originally lost its passenger service on New Year’s Day 1968, with delayed closure to passengers of the Varsity Line, and its new and re-sited station is the only genuinely new stop along the section of EWR route from Bicester Village to Bletchley, apart from new high level platforms at Bletchley, alongside the existing WCML station.

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