Oxford has an extensive rail travel network with a number of providers using the city's central Oxford station and Oxford Parkway station (located north of the ring road).
Oxford Brookes University students and staff can take advantage of a range of transport discounts and offers.
Train companies in Oxford
- Great Western Railway - Operate trains from Oxford to Reading and London Paddington. Change at Didcot Parkway for South Wales and the West of England
- Cross Country Trains - Operate services from Scotland, North of England, Midlands and the South Coast to Oxford
- Chiltern Railways - Operate between from Oxford station and London Marylebone, via Oxford Parkway station, Bicester Village, Thame and Haddenham Parkway, Princes Risborough and High Wycombe.
- The Park and Ride Bus 500 services the Oxford Centre station and Oxford Parkway station.
National enquiries / bookings
Other useful links
- Traveline - Public transport info for the UK, (including Channel Islands, Isle of Man and Northern Ireland), plus rail, ferry and coach travel between the UK and Ireland and mainland Europe.
- Student Railcard - Anyone between the ages of 16 and 25 (and mature students aged over 26 in full time education) can get a third off the price of most rail fares anywhere in Britain with a Young Persons' Railcard.
- Trainhugger - In partnership with the Royal Forestry
Society and the Royal Scottish
Forestry Society, for each train ticket booked through Trainhugger, they
will plant a tree in the UK.