On Feb 3, 8:24*pm, Tom Anderson wrote:
On Thu, 3 Feb 2011, 81F wrote:
Chiltern won't be able to run long trains from Oxford -- I think their
platform will be 5 cars max

Is there any scope for elongating that in the future?


No. There is a pinchpoint north of Oxford station where the railway
crosses the Sheepwash Channel [where the ex-LNWR line had a
swingbridge over that channel]. Houses have been built on the former
railway land.

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