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« on: August 08, 2021, 21:59:40 »
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Mon, 9 August 05:10 Oxford to Worcester Foregate Street due 06:28
09/08/21 05:10 Oxford to Worcester Foregate Street due 06:28 will call additionally at Charlbury.
This is due to overcrowding because of an event.
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« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2021, 22:03:27 »
https://www.wildernessfestival.com/
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« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2021, 22:09:15 »
Quote from: grahame on August 08, 2021, 21:59:40
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Mon, 9 August 05:10 Oxford to Worcester Foregate Street due 06:28
09/08/21 05:10 Oxford to Worcester Foregate Street due 06:28 will call additionally at Charlbury.
This is due to overcrowding because of an event.

And imagination is not really called for - a Google News search for "Charlbury" immediately brings up the Oxford Mail's
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Thousands celebrate joyful return of Oxfordshire's Wilderness Festival

AFTER a year of cancellations and postponements, Oxfordshire’s festival scene is back on track this weekend with the return of the county’s most colourful music event – Wilderness Festival.

The three day feast of music, dancing, theatre, literature, country pursuits and food got properly underway yesterday at its site at Cornbury Park, near Charlbury, with thousands of revellers arriving. Covid restrictions are necessarily tight. ...
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Looking at the state of the campers walking around Charlbury today, I wonder how many were up and alert for a train home at 5.30am, but maybe a few were...!
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« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2021, 21:06:25 »
Yes, the 'overcrowding' in these instances is often caused by people asleep across more than one seat.
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