Train Travel

  • National enquiries / bookings

    Train companies

    • Great Western Railway ( www.gwr.com) Operate trains from Oxford to Reading and London Paddington. Change at Didcot Parkway for South Wales and the West of Englan
    • Cross Country Trains ( www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk) operate services from Scotland, North of England, Midlands and the South Coast to Oxford
    • Chiltern Railways ( www.chilternrailways.co.uk) run from Oxford station  to London Marylebone via Oxford Parkway station, Bicester Village, Thame and Haddenham Parkway, Princes Risborough and High Wycombe. The Park and Ride Bus 500 runs from Oxford Centre to Oxford Parkway.

    Other useful links

    • Traveline ( www.traveline.info) - 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 Europ
    • Student Railcards ( www.railcard.co.uk) - 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.