Bicester North railway station

Bicester North
The station in 2011, after completion of widening work on the southbound platform
Location
Place	Bicester
Local authority	District of Cherwell
Grid reference	SP585231
Operations
Station code	BCS
Managed by	Chiltern Railways
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	D
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2011/12	1.356 million
2012/13	1.463 million
2013/14	1.621 million
2014/15	1.696 million
2015/16	1.417 million
History
Key dates	Opened 1 July 1910 (1 July 1910)
Original company	Great Western Railway
Pre-grouping	GWR
Post-grouping	GWR
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Bicester North from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

Bicester North ⁱ/ˈbɪstər/ is a station on the Chiltern Main Line, one of two stations serving Bicester in Oxfordshire. Services operated by Chiltern Railways run south to London Marylebone and north to Banbury, Birmingham Snow Hill and Stratford-upon-Avon.

Bicester North is one of Bicester's two stations. The other is Bicester Village on the Oxford to London Marylebone Line.

The 'Bicester cut-off' between Ashendon Junction and Aynho Junction was opened in 1910 - the final main-line stretch of route to be completed in Britain until the 1980s. This provided a shortening of the London-to-Birmingham GWR main rail line, and also gave Bicester a station with direct London trains for the first time.