Talk:Oxford railway station

message: Oxford to B. Town should be a terminus not going to radley, i want to edit it but dont know how 82.24.175.199 16:16, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled 1

message: I'm confused because on the cotswold line page it says:
The Cotswold Line is an 86.5 mile long railway line running from Oxford to Worcester,
so how can this have stations either side of Oxford?
--129.67.19.252 (talk) 23:13, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled 2

message: I believe some of information under 'Further expansion' has been overtaken by the recent proposal jointly by Oxford City, Oxfordshire and Network Rail for a redeveloped Oxford station. This in turn may die through lack of funding. So should the previous proposal, involving a new platform south of Botley Road, go into 'history' or just be deleted? 
Second question: there has been discussion about reopening the Cowley branch for passenger service - with a service to Oxford station. Should this be mentioned under 'Further expansion'? New services' or ???
Cantab72 (talk) 18:02, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: It doesn't really matter where it goes, so long as reliable sources are provided, in line with WP:V and WP:CRYSTAL. --Redrose64 (talk) 10:56, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Further expansion

message: Under the section 'History' there is a comment 'citation needed' after the reference to three closed railway lines which brought passengers to Oxford. As all three of these have Wikipedia articles of their own, I am unclear why the 'citation needed' has been added. Is it being suggested that it is uncertain that passengers from these railways might have got off at Oxford? 
Cantab72 (talk) 18:12, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that it refers to the third of the three - did Blenheim and Woodstock Branch Line services run all the way into Oxford, or did they shuttle between Woodstock and Kidlington, rather like the Abingdon branch trains shuttled between Abingdon and Radley. --Redrose64 (talk) 23:28, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: The line stopped a while ago but a book I bought recently 'Lost Railways of Oxfordshire' includes a section on the Woodstock branch and mentions trains going to Oxford and a photograph of a train 'with autocoach' going from Woodstock to Oxford. The book references another book by Richard Lingard 'The Woodstock Branch'. I'll see if I can find this in Oxford Library. Cantab72 (talk) 15:48, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

text: It is clear from Richard Lingard's book  that up to 1938, most services ran through to Oxford. Cantab72 (talk) 18:05, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: Would anyone object if move this list to the end of the article? WP:think of the reader on mobile who IMO is unlikely to read past it. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 19:31, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: List of station masters

message: The section needs updating to take account of the current planning enquiry. And the earlier plans that disappeared up a siding somewhere could do with being edited down, but it needs someone more familiar with the station than I am to do it. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 19:31, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Oxford has been altered more times in the last fifty years than any other station in Oxfordshire. About once a year, local TV news has an item about proposed changes to Oxford station. Sometimes they happen, sometimes they don't. After almost 170 years, there are still just two platforms for trains to/from the south - Banbury, arguably a less important station, has had four for 63 years. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 20:19, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: As I've counseled other keen editors elsewhere 'when it happens, we can report it. Meantime, see WP:NOTNEWS and WP: CRYSTAL". I'll take my own advice! --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 22:44, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Development plans