Rush Hour Trains at: Oxford, CVL, 25/06/21

An excellent evening spent at Oxford railway station on the Cherwell Valley Line and branch heading to the Great Western Mainline where we see no end of services from Great Western Railway, Chiltern Railways, Cross Country and freight from Freightliner, and DB Cargo UK.
The station itself whilst not very big plays a vital role in the railway network as it is the line for trains running from London Paddington to the likes of Hereford and Worcester Shrub Hill, the starting point for local trains running to London Paddington and London Marylebone, shuttle services for Reading and Banbury as well as serving the north/south Cross Country Route for trains from Manchester Piccadilly and Newcastle to then go via Birmingham New Street towards Southampton, Reading and Bournemouth.
Oxford station was built in 1852 by the Great Western Railway and was intended to be used as a starting point for their line towards Rugby, however because of the gauging issues this never took place. The station was first known as Oxford General, this was done so not to Claus confusion to the London and Northwestern Railways Oxford Rewley Station that formed the terminus of their Varsity Line that went to Cambridge. Of course this line is now in the processor being rebuilt as the East-West Rail Link.
This wasn't the first station however as in 1844 a terminus station was constructed from London Paddington on what is now the Western Road.
The only real big changes for the line came in 1872 when the GWR Broad Gauge 7ft tracks were removed to make way for the traditional standard Guage railway lines that we all see today on every part of the country. This then stayed the same roughly until the mid 1970's when the Western region of British Railways managed to get the station eyed up for improvements. This actually involved completely rebuilding the station to essentially what you see today. Then in 1974 the station was given a new travel centre which would make passenger lives easier when getting out of the station to connect to local buses or even just to walk around the city centre. The current station building and footbridge were introduced in 1990 by Network Southeast.
The station then stayed this way right up until 2016 when Chiltern Railways wee finally allowed to launch their services from London Marylebone to Oxford. This saw the introduction of 2 new bay platforms to accommodate the terminating services. During the same year track work was taking place south of the station to raise the height of the tracks so that they wouldn't be flooded by the Thames River, all they had to do was raise the line by an extra 2 metres. But because of this it meant that no trains could run in or out of the station. So for a period between July and August local buses would act as rail replacement services ferrying to and from Didcot Parkway.
My next rush hour film is going to be from Bletchley on the West Coast Mainline.
Joining me today was ChazthomoTrains so please do check out his channel as he has some excellent content for you to enjoy.
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[@JacobsTrainVideos]

Great video!! Lovely station Oxford! Brilliant ilkley moor bah tat from the Lawley Street train! Nice other trains you got there too like the DB freight!

[@Tornado922]

Thanks very much, I always love coming to Oxford. It's a great station to come to in the evening peak

[@coyi51]

I have just finished watching the CML series. Of the stations I have been to on this line, my personal favourite is Leamington Spa, which appears to have hardly changed since my first visit in 63. Excellent series, always love the rush hour trains.

[@lucatrainspotter683]

Love it 👍🏻

[@Tornado922]

Thanks very much

[@lucatrainspotter683]

@@Tornado922 you welcome 👍🏻

[@theimperialist2686]

Great railway video as always Tornado922

[@Tornado922]

Thanks very much :)

[@ash.l2175]

Good video as always and you should do Rush Hour balloons 😂

[@Tornado922]

Thanks very much, I can't really see that particular series taking off haha!

[@chriscarpenter3111]

When you planning to go.back to birmingham new street

[@EarlyAccessOFFICIAL]

Spectacular Video, are planning any GEML or WAML Videos?

[@Tornado922]

Thanks very much, I have a few GEML stations coming up that I want to go to

[@1chish]

Some big money scheduled to be spent at Oxford to create a new island platform (No 5) and replace Botley Road bridge to give a bigger road and pedestrian clearance and add extra track. Interesting to note that while the two Chiltern trains were numbered in in the '168' series the very different cab profiles show the first (168/2) to be from the 170 / Turbostar family and the second (168/0) to be from the earlier 165 / Networker family. The Chiltern 168/3 fleet are actually converted 170 trains. Chiltern is probably one of the very best TOCs around. Innovative and with a great customer focus. What they achieved at Bicester to create the Oxford services was excellent.

[@georgedowns4034]

What's annoying is, they are talking about a direct service to Witney but they should really extend it onto Cheltenham- that would be much needed. Also, the link to East of Oxford is desperately needed...

[@emilianohaskurti9344]

Can You Do Trains At Hayes & Harlington

[@Tornado922]

I will go there at some stage

[@emilianohaskurti9344]

@@Tornado922 Thanks

[@emilianohaskurti9344]

@@Tornado922 And The Trains Will All Be TFL 345s And GWR 387s And GWR 800/802 Hitachi "IETs"

[@Tornado922]

@@emilianohaskurti9344 I know

[@JackJackProductions]

800 302 would have run fast from Oxford to Banbury. The following 165 would've stopped at the intermediate stations (Heyford, Tackley, and Kings Sutton)

[@lewishawkins5085]

Yh it probably would how often do Class 800s go to Banbury

[@JackJackProductions]

@@lewishawkins5085 Two return services from London Paddington per day. Monday to Friday

[@georgedowns4034]

They actually go non stop from Paddington! Pretty neat

[@JackJackProductions]

During the morning peak and late afternoon (around 4pm), there is a return stopping shuttle service between Reading and Oxford using a 2 car 165 with it occasionally being operated by a 3 car unit. It is primarily aimed at students who go to school/ college/ university in Reading or Oxford and live near the stations between Reading and Oxford (Tilehurst, Pangbourne, Goring & Streatley, Cholsey, Didcot Parkway, Appleford, Culham, Radley, and Oxford)

[@Tornado922]

Well now I know something new

[@JackandEd]

Our Local! Great Video and hope you enjoyed filming here!

[@Tornado922]

Thanks very much, this is always a great station to come to in the evening peak

[@Valentascream]

Loving the rush hour stuff keep them coming doing a great job for us railfans very best wishes stay safe.

[@Tornado922]

Thanks very much I'm glad you're enjoying watching these rush hour films :)

[@Trainspottngmaniac]

First I also enjoyed the vid

[@Tornado922]

ok

[@myleshasell453]

Maybe do Bedford

[@Tornado922]

I will go there at some stage

[@journeysofjames1116]

Oxford looks amazing, cool vid

[@Tornado922]

Thanks very much, Oxford is an amazing station to go to

[@michaellittlejohns7968]

Great video

[@Tornado922]

Thanks very much

[@arnoldspottingvideos5269]

Great video mate. Oxford is a really good station, sadly no 68 silver set cause of Covid but nice to see 66415 in the orange livery I love orange yeah I like to see the rainbow livery GBRF 66773 but all well is not the end of the world 😉.

[@Tornado922]

Thanks very much, this is a great station to come to in the evening peak :) I would have liked to have gotten here sooner but the roadworks put a stop to that

[@valfaulkner648]

Thanks that was brilliant! I just loved the repeat commentary from that young man, it made me smile.

[@Tornado922]

I'm glad you enjoyed watching this :)

[@BromleyBroughbusexpertise]

Do harrow

[@georgedowns4034]

What? On the hill, sudbury & h' road or hill harrow?

[@Tornado922]

Please would be nice..........

[@robertstrainsnsw1596]

Great video at Oxford I like the new freightliner livery on the 66 and the blue livery DB cargo 66 Can't wait for you film at Bletchley

[@Tornado922]

Thanks very much I had a great time getting this all out together. The Bletchley film has been done and will be released tomorrow evening

[@Owenjedi5000]

Oxford has changed since the train simulator route which was set in 2006

[@Tornado922]

It's changed for the better

[@alanmolyneux5957]

Very good video. Great to see the young lad filming. I'm 55 now and sometimes I wonder if there's a generation of enthusiasts behind me. Keep enjoying it lad.

[@Tornado922]

Thanks very much, there is a great many young rail enthusiasts getting into the hobby which is great to see

[@acde9355]

I'm quite wondering whether their headlight is bright enough in dark circumstances?

[@georgedowns4034]

Please can you do Milton Keynes Central, Reading & Swindon at some point.

[@Tornado922]

I have a film coming out from Milton Keynes in the next week. Reading will be covered at some stage but I can't say when or if I will be doing Swindon

[@georgedowns4034]

@@Tornado922 ah thx. Can't wait!

[@aviationtrainsfc1]

Some nice freight variety there, including orange 66415 and maritime 66148

[@Tornado922]

If I had gotten here sooner I would have a lot more freight coming through

[@aviationtrainsfc1]

@@Tornado922 hopefully you will be able to see the locos that you missed in the future. Great video

[@evanccfc2190]

Oxford is amazing I went there recently its great

[@Tornado922]

It's an amazing station to go to

[@emilianohaskurti9344]

Wow.

[@peoplefirstforum3712]

This is different Inoxford Wewillgetthere Soon

[@Trainspotter11_]

Brilliant video! I really enjoyed this :)

[@Tornado922]

Thanks very much I'm glad you enjoyed watching this :)

[@ghighlandchieftain4462]

Other amazing video legend tornado

[@Tornado922]

Thanks very much :)

[@Ethan_trains]

Just subscribed

[@Tornado922]

Thanks very much for subscribing to my channel

[@peoplefirstforum3712]

Hi there Happy newyeartoyoufor2022

[@DJCox95]

Another great video, thoroughly enjoyable! Are you planning to do a series this year?

[@Tornado922]

Thanks very much, there won't be a mainline series this year because of how late I started my year getting this filming done. Next year will see a mainline series making a return and it would be from the South Eastern Mainline from Dover to London Charing Cross/London Victoria.

[@DJCox95]

@@Tornado922 That sounds like a great series to do, looking forward to future videos throughout the year also!

[@SlowLineTrainspotting]

Another fantastic video. Great work!

[@Tornado922]

Thanks very much :)

[@chrisatrailway7573]

Great video & I do like class 66's

[@camotech1314]

Those super voyagers sound good 👍

[@paulhill8224]

Great video

[@Tornado922]

Thanks very much

[@emilianohaskurti9344]

Well Done

[@Tornado922]

Thanks very much

[@copbush912]

I have a train station go to alfreton

[@copbush912]

My nan lives there

[@lnertrainfan1785]

@@copbush912 my grandad lives there

[@copbush912]

@@lnertrainfan1785 nice

[@Tornado922]

@@copbush912 I'll see what I can do

[@nathansrailwayphotography8125]

Great video.

[@Tornado922]

Thanks very much

[@thekentishtrainspotter3052]

I died at 15:20 😂 Rush hour balloons at: 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@class56trainsrock62]

3:43

[@caseyneistat2437]

The time on the boards of the IEPs show the departure time from the current station. Once doors are locked they update

[@Tornado922]

I did eventually realise that haha, it did catch me out at first

[@Hard-Boiled-Bollock]

Charles Manson had a beard..

[@Tornado922]

ok maybe not everyone with a beard is trust worthy.........

[@matthewbull7]

Love this video and love hearing and the seeing the veg with you !

[@Tornado922]

Thanks very much, the hobby is slowly but surely getting more popular I think

[@RailwayVideos.]

Great video!

[@Tornado922]

Thanks very much

[@alanmolyneux5957]

The 800's crack me up!

[@Tornado922]

lol