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The 40th Annual General Meeting of the Cotswold Line Promotion Group heard that there had been welcome signs of improvements in the reliability and punctuality of services on the route after several months of cancellations and delays to trains. Continue reading

What are thought to be the first journeys made by a nine-coach InterCity Express Train along the Cotswold Line took place on Monday, May 14, when GWR IET 800032 worked a test train both ways between Oxford and Worcester. Continue reading

GWR will be holding a number of Meet the Manager events at stations along the Cotswold Line later this month and in June. Continue reading

Great Western Railway has given advance warning that train services on the Cotswold Line will be altered on a number of weekends and during school holidays later this year, while work takes place to extend platforms at most stations along the route. Continue reading

Passengers travelling between the Cotswold Line and London will have to change trains at Oxford over the early May bank holiday weekend, due to the closure of the Great Western main line at Slough for engineering work. Continue reading