Archive - Thursday, 8 February 2007


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Snow latest: Bus services hit

BUS services across the county were badly affected by the weather with some services suspended and others delayed.

Phil Ashworth, spokesman for The Oxford Bus Company, said: "We are managing to run all services in Oxford.

"The 4A route cannot get to the Elms Rise estate because of the snow, but we are in contact with the local authorities and hope to be able to get up to that area soon.

"All buses to London and the airports are running, but are slightly delayed.

"I would just like to pay tribute to our drivers, all of whom made it in to work this morning, despite the weather conditions."

The following Stagecoach bus services were affected by the snow today, including:

Banbury - no services

The following services are suspended:

U1 Brookes Bus: Harcourt Hill - Rail station - Oxford City - Cowley Road - Crescent Halt - Headington Campus - JR Hospital .

18: Oxford - Eynsham - Stanton Harcourt - Standlake - Bampton/Witney suspended

19: Witney - Ducklington - Bampton - Clanfield - Alvescot

20: Oxford (rail station) - Yarnton - Woodstock - Combe and Chalbury - Enstone and Chipping Norton

233 (X3): Witney - Deer Park - Minster Lovell - Burford - Shipton - Milton-under-Wychwood

11: Oxford City Centre - Eynsham - Long Hanborough - Freeland - Leigh - Witney

The following services experiencing delays:

1: Oxford City Centre - Cowley Road - Templars Square - Blackbird Leys

3: Oxford City Centre - Iffley Road - Rose Hill

7 (Barton): Oxford City Centre - Brookes University - Headington - Green Roundabout - Barton

10: Oxford City Centre - Cowley Road - Templars Square - Horspath - Hollow Way - The Slade - Wood Farm - Headington

X27: Oxford - Summertown - Gosford - Bicester - Glory Farm - Langford - Ambrosden - Arncott

32 / 31: Oxford - Bagley Wood - Abingdon - Culham - Sutton Courtenay - Milton Park - Didcot - Harwell Village - Harwell IBC -

Hendred - Ardington - Wantage - Grove - East Hanney - marcham - Abingdon - Bagley Wood - Oxford

242: Woodstock - Bladon - Long Hanborough - North Leigh - Witney (not covering New Yatt Road and Windmill Road)

100: Oxford - North Hinksey - Eynsham - Witney - Thorney Leys - Carterton

200 (X1): Oxford - Woodstock Road - A40 - Witney - Minster Lovell - Carterton (not covering Tower Hill)