165125 Water Eaton (Banbury Road) 6 August 1998

165125 passes the semi-derelict Banbury Road Sidings site at Water Eaton on 6 August 1998 with the 15:40 Bicester Town to Oxford Thames Trains service. Although still used as a stone terminal, a lot of the infrastructure was built in connection with the former Second World War grain silo (just out of view to the right). This whole area could soon be dramatically transformed with the construction by Chiltern Railways of Water Eaton station. This would form a traffic interchange with the nearby Water Eaton park and ride, and would result in the purely local train pictured above, being replaced by a fast and frequent Oxford to London service, that will connect with the Chiltern mainline at Bicester.