Wasn't Oxford Blechley to be the freight M25 in te e60s, hence Blechley flyover and the proposed yard at Swanbourne.
Wonder how freight fits in with Chiltern's and East West proposals?
Indeed the Bletchley Flyover was built as part of the 1955 Modernisation Plan with the intention of serving a new freight marshalling yard just east of Swanbourne. In the event the flyover was built in the early 1960's but by then the ideas had moved on and the marshalling yard never opened.
The joint East West Rail/Chiltern scheme allows for an hourly freight path between Oxford and Bletchley (
WCML▸ ) in both directions (inlcuding existing flows to Banbury Road, MOD Bicester and Calvert) in addition to the 2tph East West Rail service between Oxford-Bletchley and 2tph Chiltern Railways service from Oxford to London.