Varsity Line (or Oxford to Cambridge Line) is an informal name for the railway route that formerly linked the English university cities of Oxford and Cambridge, operated successively by the London and North Western Railway, London, Midland and Scottish Railway and British Railways. A pun on the railway term main line was sometimes employed by describing the line as the "Brain Line". The line was not listed for closure in Richard Beeching's 1963 report "The Reshaping of British Railways".

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  • Varsity Line (or Oxford to Cambridge Line) is an informal name for the railway route that formerly linked the English university cities of Oxford and Cambridge, operated successively by the London and North Western Railway, London, Midland and Scottish Railway and British Railways. A pun on the railway term main line was sometimes employed by describing the line as the "Brain Line". The line was not listed for closure in Richard Beeching's 1963 report "The Reshaping of British Railways". However, at the end of 1967 passenger services were withdrawn from the Oxford - Bletchley section and all trains were withdrawn from the Bedford - Cambridge section. Today the Bletchley - Bedford section carries passenger trains as the Marston Vale Line, and the Oxford - Bicester Town section carries passenger trains as the Bicester Link. The Bicester - Calvert section still carries freight traffic but the Calvert - Bletchley section is disused. Stagecoach East's X5 coach service provides a passenger service by road between Oxford and Cambridge via Bicester, Milton Keynes and Bedford. The Varsity Line forms a major part of the East West Rail Link proposal to restore a strategic railway connecting East Anglia with central, southern and western England.
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  • Varsity Line (or Oxford to Cambridge Line) is an informal name for the railway route that formerly linked the English university cities of Oxford and Cambridge, operated successively by the London and North Western Railway, London, Midland and Scottish Railway and British Railways. A pun on the railway term main line was sometimes employed by describing the line as the "Brain Line". The line was not listed for closure in Richard Beeching's 1963 report "The Reshaping of British Railways".
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