Current Services
Passenger services are operated by Chiltern Railways, who took over from First Great Western on 22 May 2011. Since December 2008, Oxfordshire County Council has been funding improvements to services on the line. The service on Mondays to Saturdays was improved with an evening service and a doubling of the number of trains on Saturdays. From May 2009, there were further improvements with extra trains during the daytime on Mondays to Fridays and a new all-year round Sunday service, with a train every 90 minutes. There are now 11 trains from Mondays to Thursdays, 12 trains on Fridays, 13 on Saturdays and nine on Sundays.
Speeds on the line are limited to 40 mph (64 km/h) because of the poor condition of the track, and 25 mph (40 km/h) on the wooden bridge over the River Ray.
On 22 May 2011, Chiltern Railways took over all passenger operations on the line. This is in advance of the new London Marylebone to Oxford service which is due to start in 2013.
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