Bicester Town railway station
Bicester Village 
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New main building under construction, March 2015
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| Location | |
| Place | Bicester |
| Local authority | Cherwell District |
| Coordinates | 51°53′35″N 1°08′55″W / 51.8931°N 1.1485°WCoordinates: 51°53′35″N 1°08′55″W / 51.8931°N 1.1485°W |
| Grid reference | SP586219 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | BIT |
| Managed by | Chiltern Railways |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | F1 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.213 million |
| 2012/13 |
0.214 million |
| 2013/14 |
 0.208 million |
| 2014/15 |
88,440 |
| 2015/16 |
0.413 million |
| History | |
| Original company | Buckinghamshire Railway |
| Pre-grouping | London and North Western Railway |
| Post-grouping | London, Midland and Scottish Railway |
| 1 October 1850 | Opened as "Bicester" |
| March 1954 | Renamed "Bicester London Road" |
| 1 January 1968 | Closed |
| 11 May 1987 | Reopened and renamed "Bicester Town" |
| 15 February 2014 | Closed to rail traffic for line upgrade |
| 12 March 2015 | Renamed "Bicester Village" |
| 25 October 2015 | Reopened |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Bicester Village from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Bicester Village (previously Bicester Town 1987–2015, Bicester London Road 1954–1987, Bicester 1850–1954) is the smaller of two railway stations serving the town of Bicester in Oxfordshire (the larger is Bicester North). It is 12 miles (19 km) northeast of Oxford 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.
The Buckinghamshire Railway, which already had a route between Bletchley and Banbury, had powers to build a line to Oxford. The first part of this line, from a junction to the west of Winslow (at a point which became known as Verney Junction) as far as Islip, 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.
There was another track in front of the platform, beside the passenger and freight running line. This was the long reversing siding for the Bicester Military Railway, serving the local MOD depot.
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