| Bicester North | |
| Symbol Location: | gb |
| Symbol: | rail |
| Borough: | Bicester, District of Cherwell |
| Country: | England |
| Grid Name: | Grid reference |
| Manager: | Chiltern Railways |
| Platforms: | 2 |
| Code: | BCS |
| Classification: | DfT category D |
| Original: | Great Western Railway |
| Pregroup: | GWR |
| Postgroup: | GWR |
| Opened: | 1 July 1910 |
| Footnotes: | Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
| Mapframe: | yes |
| Mapframe-Zoom: | 13 |
Bicester North is a station on the Chiltern Main Line, one of two stations serving Bicester in Oxfordshire. Services operated by Chiltern Railways run south to and north to, and .
Bicester North is one of Bicester's two stations. The other is on the Oxford to London Marylebone Line.
The 'Bicester cut-off' between Ashendon Junction and Aynho Junction was opened in 1910 - the final main-line stretch of route to be completed in Britain until the 1980s. This provided a shortening of the London-to-Birmingham GWR main rail line, and also gave Bicester a station with direct London trains for the first time.
The station was transferred from the Western Region of British Rail to the London Midland Region on 24 March 1974.[1]
The Monday-to-Friday off-peak service consists of:
In 2010 the down line through the station was realigned for higher speeds, as part of the Evergreen 3 project. In 2011, the up (southbound) platform was widened, using the trackbed of the former through lines.[2]