Having just stopped at King's Sutton FGW's 165106 picks up speed working the 10.16 Oxford to Banbury all-stations service. This shuttle service is a strange anomaly being well away from the expected operating area for what is after all a TOC that operates trains west from London. Of course, historically, this location is deeply in GWR territory since the privatisation 'carve up' things have changed. Also, this is the only point that FGW operates any services, albeit for a very short distance, in Northamptonshire.
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