Cotswold Line Promotion Group

First Great Western 180103 at Charlbury. Photo: John Stanley.
First Great Western HST near Moreton-in-Marsh. Photo: William Crossley.
First Great Western 165102 at Moreton-in-Marsh. Photo: William Crossley.
London Midland 170515 at Worcester Foregate Street. Photo: John Stanley.
London Midland 172335 at Henwick. Photo: Steve Widdowson.
London Midland 150109 at Colwall - Photo: Steve Widdowson.

ASCOTT-u-WYCHWOOD CHRISTMAS SHOPPING SERVICES.
Saturdays to 21st December 2013.
The following services will call additionally at Ascott-under-Wychwood:
0903 to Oxford, Reading and London Paddington.
1247 to Worcester and Great Malvern (the 1121 from London Paddington, 1223 from Oxford)
1645 to Worcester and Great Malvern (the 1521 from London Paddington, 1623 from Oxford)

NEW COTSWOLD LINE DVD.
Video 125 has announced that a new driver's eye view DVD from the cab of a HST covering the line from Oxford to Hereford will be released during November.
A preview is available HERE.
Further details will be available from http://www.Video125.co.uk.

GREAT WESTERN FRANCHISE EXTENSION.

It was announced by the Department for Transport on 3rd October 2013 that First Great Western will continue to operate services for 23 months from 13th October 2013 to 20th September 2015. Full details are available HERE.

Updated on 3rd October 2013..

TRAIN CHANGE,

The CLPG has discovered that from Monday 2nd September 2013, the Mondays to Fridays 1551 departure from London Paddington to Worcester Shrub Hill is retimed to 1552, no longer calls at Slough and calls only to pick up passengers at Reading. The reason for this change is that a 5-car Class 180 is being used instead of the former 8-coach HST to allow one HST at a time to be taken out of service to be "refreshed" . The CLPG is concerned about capacity problems, particularly beyond Oxford, where the HST, which has around 200 more seats, was often full.

HANBOROUGH STATION CAR PARK.

The 191 space car park extension came into use on Monday 8th July 2013.

Car park charges now apply at this station.

An official opening took place on 24th July.

Work to provide a direct link between the car park and the station commenced early in September 2013.

Welcome to the Cotswold Line Promotion Group's Website.

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N.B. At present (7th September), the programmers are investigating the non appearance of the "Captcha Code" on the Registration page. Until this is fixed, it is not possible for new registrations to be made.

The Cotswold Line Promotion Group is representing users of the railway line between Oxford, Worcester and Hereford.

The Cotswold and Malvern Line has stations at OXFORD - HANBOROUGH - COMBE - FINSTOCK - CHARLBURY - ASCOTT-under-WYCHWOOD - SHIPTON - KINGHAM - MORETON-in-MARSH - HONEYBOURNE - EVESHAM - PERSHORE - WORCESTER Shrub Hill - WORCESTER Foregate Street - MALVERN LINK - GREAT MALVERN - COLWALL - LEDBURY - HEREFORD

This site is in course of development and new features are added from time to time. The latest addition was the "Links" page.

Latest Tweets from First Great Western (from Twitter)

@NRE_FirstGW 06 December 2013 12:53

CLEARED: Trains are now running normally between Swindon and Gloucester following a broken down train causing disruption near #Kemble
@NRE_FirstGW 06 December 2013 12:38

CLEARED: Trains are now running normally between #Fareham and Portsmouth Harbour and between Fareham and Chichester
@NRE_FirstGW 06 December 2013 11:37

Delays between Fareham and Portsmouth Harbour / Chichester expected until 13:00 #Fareham
@NRE_FirstGW 06 December 2013 10:59

NEW: Delays between #Fareham and Portsmouth Harbour / Chichester until further notice nationalrail.co.uk/service_disrup…
@NRE_FirstGW 06 December 2013 10:57

NEW: Delays of up to 60 minutes between Swindon and Gloucester until further notice #Kemble More info: nationalrail.co.uk/service_disrup…