Modern Oxford! With the exception of the brick terraces on the right, virtually everything in this picture is relatively new. 800317 leaves the station on 2 February 2019 with the 1P45 13:01 GWR service to Paddington. The eyesore in the background is the Saïd Business School. Tourists getting off the train and seeing this must think they have been lied to when reading about Oxford's 'Dreaming Spires'! It is also slightly ironic that it sits on the site of the much more attractive former LMS Rewley Road station, which being Grade II listed, was thankfully dismantled and reassembled at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre. |