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Oxfordshire: Passengers set for disruption after landslide

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Fallen bricks on the track from the damaged bridge would not have been visible to the train driver at night

Passengers are set to face further disruption following a landslide in which a train hit rubble.

A Great Western Railway (GWR) service ran into debris on Friday after a landslide at Cassington Road bridge, between Oxford and Hanborough.

Network Rail has said the railway line is expected to remain closed "until at least the weekend" while engineers investigate the cause of the incident.

Services between Oxford and Moreton-In-Marsh were cancelled on Monday.

However, trains were operating between Worcester and Moreton-In-Marsh, with a replacement bus operating onwards to Oxford.

Trains between Worcester Shrub Hill and Moreton-in-Marsh, and between Oxford and London Paddington are able to run.

Network Rail said engineers would identify "the safest and quickest way to reopen the railway".

GWR tickets are being accepted on certain CrossCountry, Avanti, Chiltern Railways, and West Midlands Railway services.

The 362 passengers on board the GWR Paddington service on Friday were asked to leave their carriages and walk along the tracks to another train.

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It was dark when British Transport Police had to escort 362 passengers from the Paddington service onto another train
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