Travel to and from Oxford
Knowledge Train Oxford,
Clarendon House,
52 Cornmarket Street,
Oxford OX1 3HJ,
England,
United Kingdom.
Air
Oxford is served by nearby Oxford Airport which is also home to CAE Oxford Aviation Academy and airline pilot flight training centres. The airport has helipads used by Airbus Helicopters UK headquarters.
Direct trains run from Oxford station to London Paddington serving Heathrow Airport. Some cross-country trains run direct services to Birmingham International as well as to Southampton Airport Parkway.
Bus
Oxford has one of the largest urban park and ride networks in the United Kingdom. Its five sites, at Pear Tree, Redbridge, Seacourt, Thornhill, Water Eaton and Oxford Parkway have a combined capacity of 4,930 car parking spaces.
In 2014 Oxford Bus introduced a fleet of 20 new buses with flywheel energy storage on the services it operates under contract for Oxford Brookes University.
Rail
Oxford railway station is west of the city centre and provides services to Bournemouth, Manchester Piccadilly and Newcastle and others. Oxford has had three main railway stations – Oxford railway, Oxford Park railway and Didcot Parkway railway station.
River and canal
Oxford was historically an important port on the river Thames. Oxford Canal was built to connect Oxford with the Midlands. Commercial traffic has given way to recreational use of the river and canal.
Roads
Oxford’s central location on several transport routes means that it has long been a crossroads city with many coaching inns, although road traffic is now strongly discouraged from using the city centre.
