30-463: A420 may refer to : A420 road (England) Bass Highway (Victoria) , a highway in Australia [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title formed as a letter–number combination. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
60-673: A junction with the A419 east of Swindon. It then travels under the Great Western Main Line at the twin-arch Acorn Bridge (the second arch was originally used by the Wilts & Berks Canal ) and past Shrivenham and Watchfield (both bypassed in the 1980s), then on towards Faringdon in the Vale of White Horse . A further by-pass section, opened in 1979, avoids the centre of Faringdon, passing just south of Folly Hill and crossing
90-457: A masterplan for further development of the station. Construction of an additional platform has been proposed. Flood remediation work south of the station at Hinksey saw services at the station curtailed & replaced by buses to/from Didcot Parkway in July and August 2016. This allowed the trackbed to be raised by 2 feet (0.65 m) and new culverts installed to reduce the impact of flooding from
120-416: A new platform on part of the station's long-stay car park. The new platform (south of platform 1) would allow trains to arrive and depart from the same track and reduce the need for empty trains to be shunted around the station. Currently, in busy periods trains can be kept waiting outside of the station for a platform to become available. A new covered footbridge would also be built over Botley Road to link
150-480: A new through station in Park End Street , so when this opened with the extension of the line from Banbury to Birmingham on 1 October 1852, the original Grandpont terminus was closed to passenger services. The old station at Grandpont became a goods depot, but was closed completely on 26 November 1872, the day that the broad gauge tracks were removed north of Didcot . The site of the station was then sold, as
180-563: A routine speed check in the UK. On 27 January 2007, Timothy Brady, a 33-year-old man from Harrow, London , was clocked driving at 172 miles per hour (277 km/h) in a Porsche 911 Turbo that he had taken without permission from his employer, a luxury car hire firm. Brady was disqualified from driving and sentenced to 10 weeks in prison. 51°34′46″N 1°43′20″W / 51.57931°N 1.72211°W / 51.57931; -1.72211 Oxford railway station Oxford railway station
210-580: Is a primary route . Since the opening of the M4 motorway in the 1970s, the road has been in two sections. The first section begins on Old Market Street near the centre of Bristol and passes through Kingswood before leaving the city on the east side. From here it travels eastward over the southern part of the Cotswolds , to the north of Bath , to Chippenham in Wiltshire . The second section begins at
240-542: Is a mainline railway station , one of two serving the city of Oxford , England . It is about 0.5 miles (800 m) west of the city centre, north-west of Frideswide Square and the eastern end of Botley Road . It is the busiest station in Oxfordshire , and the fourth busiest in South East England . It is on the line for trains between London Paddington and Hereford via Worcester Shrub Hill . It
270-504: Is a starting point for fast and local trains to London Paddington and London Marylebone , and for local trains to Reading , Worcester ( Shrub Hill and Foregate stations), and Banbury . It is also on the north–south Cross Country Route from Manchester Piccadilly and Newcastle via Birmingham New Street and Reading to Southampton Central and Bournemouth . The station is managed by Great Western Railway , and also served by CrossCountry and Chiltern Railways trains. Immediately to
300-765: Is limited to 50 mph (80 km/h). A further dual-carriageway section bypasses Cumnor Hill , to give a view of the "City of Dreaming Spires" that is Oxford from the west. After crossing the Oxford Ring Road , it passes through the suburb of Botley and down the Botley Road . It crosses the River Thames on Osney Bridge and reaches central Oxford after passing under the Cherwell Valley Line next to Oxford station . Within Oxford, it
330-534: Is planned, but not scheduled. Great Western Railway run two fast trains per hour to London Paddington via Reading and two stopping services to Didcot Parkway . The stopping trains mainly originate here (a small number come from Banbury ), however some fast trains continue to and from Worcester and Hereford. In September 2024, GWR commenced a Saturdays-only direct service to Bristol via Swindon and Bath Spa . Chiltern Railways run two trains per hour to London Marylebone via High Wycombe , which are slower than
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#1732772669531360-610: Is routed along Oxpens Road , then Thames Street, parts of St Aldate's , then the High Street , which is closed to most motor traffic during the day. The road then crosses Magdalen Bridge to St Clements and East Oxford and ascends the notoriously steep Headington Hill to the suburb of Headington before terminating at the Headington Roundabout (known locally as the Green Road roundabout), where it meets
390-602: The A40 and the Oxford Ring Road (designated the A4142). Large vehicles such as lorries are advised by large signs at Oxford and Swindon not to take this route and use the alternative A34 and M4 route to Swindon. This is not enforced and the road is often heavily congested due to slow HGVs taking the shorter A420 route. The road has a poor accident record and this coupled with heavy peak time traffic caused it to be nicknamed
420-506: The A417 . The A420 then travels the corallian limestone ridge that forms the north-west boundary of the Vale of White Horse, passing Littleworth , Buckland and Longworth . A dual-carriageway section by-passes Southmoor and Kingston Bagpuize on its way to Oxford . Most of the road between Swindon and Oxford, apart from the dual carriageway sections and a short section around Faringdon,
450-641: The Wycombe Railway , Oxford, Witney and Fairford Railway , and Blenheim and Woodstock Branch Line . Through trains from the north to the Southern Railway also typically changed locomotives at Oxford. It was for a time known as Oxford General station to distinguish it from the London and North Western Railway 's Oxford Rewley Road terminus of the Varsity Line to Cambridge , which
480-606: The 'A420 Road to Hell' in local media in 2007. A survey in February 2018 claimed that it is the most dangerous A road in South East England . What is now the A420 was established in the early 18th century as a direct route between Chippenham and Bristol via Tog Hill, avoiding the older and more established route via Bath (now the A4 ). It was an important road for Bristol, whose communications with Bath had been disputed and difficult. After
510-625: The A430 renumbered A420. The road from Botley through Oxford to Headington was originally part of the A40. When the northern Oxford bypass was built in the 1930s, the A40 was rerouted along the bypass and the road through Oxford was renumbered A420. As a result of the building of the M4 motorway in the early 1970s and subsequent road modernisation, the A420 between Chippenham and Swindon lost its identity. From Chippenham to Lyneham through Sutton Benger and to
540-522: The Bath Road was turnpiked in 1707, the Bristol Trust attempted to turnpike the direct road in 1727, but faced opposition from colliers at Kingswood , and the road was not sufficiently improved until the 1740s. When first classified in 1922, the A420 ran between Chippenham and Botley , near Oxford, while the road between Bristol and Chippenham was the A430. The two roads were later joined and
570-612: The Wolvercote Tunnel and Peartree areas in September 2016, and Chiltern Railways began services from Oxford to Oxford Parkway on 11 December 2016. The Chiltern route out of Oxford is shared with the western section of East West Rail , which reuses part of the historic Varsity Line route between Oxford and Cambridge . The initial services are planned to commence in 2025, calling at Winslow and Bletchley , then Milton Keynes Central or Bedford . Extension to Cambridge
600-511: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A420&oldid=963066015 " Category : Letter–number combination disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages A420 road (England) The A420 is a road between Bristol and Oxford in England. Between Swindon and Oxford it
630-400: The nearby River Thames upon the railway (which has caused service interruptions on several occasions in recent years). Concurrent bridge repair work at Hanborough and signalling alterations at Banbury was also carried out over this period. The £18 million scheme was completed on 15 August 2016. The station has always been busy. In addition to current services, formerly there were others over
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#1732772669531660-598: The north is Sheepwash Channel Railway Bridge over the Sheepwash Channel . The Great Western Railway (GWR) opened to Oxford on 12 June 1844 with a terminus station in what is now Western Road, Grandpont . In 1845 the Oxford and Rugby Railway (ORR) began to build its line, starting from a junction at New Hinksey 0.75 miles (1.2 km) south of the GWR terminus. The junction was known as Millstream Junction, and
690-706: The north of RAF Lyneham and its limestone ridge, it became the B4069 . From Lyneham to Swindon it became part of the A3102 . From Swindon through Stratton St Margaret to the A419 it became the A4312. Matches between rival football clubs Oxford United and Swindon Town are sometimes referred to as the "A420 derby". The A420 near Kingston Bagpuize in Oxfordshire was the site of the fastest speeding offence ever caught in
720-521: The possibility of developing a service between Oxford and the Cowley branch line. In August 2008 Chiltern Railways announced Project Evergreen 3 , a proposal to construct a 0.25 miles (400 m) chord between the Oxford to Bicester Line and the Chiltern Main Line , to allow a new Oxford to London Marylebone service to run via Bicester Village and High Wycombe . Work began in 2014;
750-481: The project, which included reinstatement of double track between Bicester and Oxford, was completed in 2015 as far as the new station at Oxford Parkway and the service from here to Bicester and Marylebone commenced on 26 October 2015. Services to Oxford were planned to start in Spring 2016, although locals objected to the extra noise that would be caused. Network Rail completed the final stages of infrastructure work in
780-404: The provision of a new travel centre, and the new main building and footbridge were added in 1990 by Network SouthEast . Planning permission was granted for the expansion to support the proposed Chiltern Railways service to London Marylebone and the service was subsequently launched on 12 December 2016. Meanwhile, Oxford City Council, Oxfordshire County Council and Network Rail have developed
810-473: The station building with the new platform, replacing the existing footbridge to the car park. The new platform was to have been brought into use during 2011, and was to be part of the city and county councils' West End Area Action Plan for the western part of the city centre, which also considers other rail projects such as Evergreen 3 and the Paddington–Oxford electrification. Chiltern Railways has raised
840-456: Was between the future sites of Hinksey Halt and Abingdon Road Halt , both of which were opened in 1908. The GWR took over the ORR while it was still being built, and opened the line as far as Banbury on 2 September 1850. For just over two years, trains from Oxford to Banbury started at Grandpont, and had to reverse at Millstream Junction in order to continue their journey. The ORR line included
870-544: Was adjacent and came under joint management in 1933. On 1 October 1951 British Railways closed Rewley Road station to passengers and transferred its services to this station. South of the station immediately west of the railway tracks is Osney Cemetery , established in 1848 just before the current station site. Nearby is the site of the former Osney Abbey . In November 2009 it was announced that Oxford station would be expanded. A £10 million joint development between Network Rail and Oxfordshire County Council would create
900-469: Was the trackbed from Millstream Junction, some 66 chains (1,300 m ) in length. Major subsequent changes were removal of the last 7 ft 0 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (2,140 mm) gauge tracks in 1872 and of the train shed in 1890–1. The station was substantially rebuilt by the Western Region of British Railways in 1971, further improvements being carried out during 1974 including
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