Oxford Parkway appears

Not ten minutes' walk from our front door a new rail station is being built and line improvements being made,   Today's view is from the bridge over the railway and by-pass.  It seemed about time to look prpperly at the construction work rather than just glance at it from a car or a bus.

The new station building and the platforms look well advanced, and new sleepers, track and ballast are evident.

This is part of what Wikipedia has to say about the new rail link to London:

The station is part of Project Evergreen 3, funded and managed by Chiltern Railways. It will be served every half-hour by trains between London Marylebone and Oxford. Chiltern Railways plans to open the station in Summer 2015 for trains towards Bicester and London, with services towards Oxford beginning in Spring 2016. The journey time to London will be about an hour.

The East West Rail Consortium's planned rail service between Oxford and Milton Keynes Central and Bedford Midland will also serve Oxford Parkway.

The station is north-east of the site of the former Oxford Road Halt, which was opened in 1905 and closed in 1926. In 1942 a Government grain silo was built next to the site as part of a Second World War network to concentrate scarce food and distribute it by rail. It was in use until the late 1980s. In October 2013 Chiltern Railways had it demolished as part of site preparation for the new station and car park.  Oxford Parkway will have a car park with more than 800 spaces, and more than 100 cycle spaces, linked with the neighbouring park and ride site.

The grain silo forms part of an entertaining diversion.  One day, ViolaMaths and I decided when passing by to drive in to see what was going on around the silo, long before we knew anything about new stations.  When we got home, I was called by the police, who politely asked me if I knew where my car was.  "Yes". I said, "on the forecourt in front of my house".  Apparently we had been spotted by a watchman at the silo site, who had noted the registration number and 'phoned the police.  The police didn't appear to object to our curiosity, but merely wished to assure themselves that I was still in possession of my car and that it had not been nicked by joyriders who were running riot at the grain silo!

Here is a BBC report on progress with the station.