We Live Three Minutes From The Station — And Can’t Catch A Train
The title of this post is the same as that of this article on The Times.
This is the sub-heading.
A line connecting Oxford to Milton Keynes was finished 16 months ago. So why does it remain useless to families who moved to be next to it?
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Nearly two years after moving to Winslow for its rail connections, Rachael Lee is still waiting to catch her first train.
Winslow station, a three-minute walk from Lee’s house, should have opened last year, connecting locals to Oxford, Milton Keynes and beyond. But as the site remains plagued by delays, the only people to pass through its doors are the security guards paid to keep watch.
“All the lights are on and there’s ticket machines that are on,” said Lee, 36, a marketing professional who moved to the Buckinghamshire town with her family in June 2024. “Who’s paying for all of that? It just feels like it takes the mickey when you drive and walk past it.”
Construction issues, union disputes about onboard guards and a lack of ready trains have all delayed the opening of the station, which was built for East West Rail (EWR) in a £6 billion government-funded project to reconnect Oxford and Cambridge by train for the first time since 1967. It is one of the country’s biggest rail projects, begun in 2014, and is expected to bring tens of thousands of jobs and billions of pounds to the regional economy.
Harold Wilson would have solved this problem with beer and sandwiches at No. 10.
The Anonymous Widower 
This section only cost 1.2B the 6B is if they ever get to Cambridge. That said its a dreadful look for the industry and give Ms Alexander likes to tell us she is sorting out the mess from the Torys yet she conveniently sideswiped a question on it from the local MP only last week in Commons
Comment by Nicholas Ronald Lewis | March 29, 2026 |