Motorists are being advised to take extra care on Oxfordshire's roads this morning due to the risks of snow and ice, especially on untreated minor roads.

Council council gritting crews have been working overnight to lay salt on main roads and around key locations such as hospitals and schools.

Bus services in Oxford and around the county operated by the Oxford Bus Company, Stagecoach, Thames Travel and RH Transport will operate to normal timetables today wherever possible, although Stagecoach has warned there will be a number of alterations to some routes, as follows:

  • S3 - unable to serve Combe, buses running direct to Stonesfield
  • S5 - unable to serve Sunderland Drive in Glory Farm, Bicester
  • 16A - unable to serve Herschel Crescent, Littlemore
  • 59A - unable to serve Middle Barton and Duns Tew, journeys instead running as route 59 via the A4260
  • 215 - unable to serve Smiths Estate, Park Road and Springfield Oval, in Witney, buses diverting via Tower Hill and Burford Road
  • 242 - unable to serve Windmill Road, North Leigh, buses diverting along Park Road
  • B5 - unable to serve Bretch Hill, Hastings Road and Fairways, in Banbury, with buses turning around at Woodgreen Avenue
  • B7 - service cancelled

On the railways, Chiltern Railways, CrossCountry and Wrexham & Shropshire will all operate near-normal timetables, unless there is more heavy snow.

First Great Western is operating a modified timetable, with a reduced number of through trains between Oxford and London.

Express services in both directions between Oxford and London will be cancelled all day and the only fast trains operating on the route will be those running from and to the Cotswold Line, which will run at normal times.

Passengers from Oxford are advised instead to use stopping services bound for Reading, which will leave Oxford at seven minutes and 37 minutes past the hour, from 4.07am today until 12.37am tomorrow, and change at Didcot Parkway to join fast trains to London there.

In the opposite direction, these stopping trains will leave Reading for Oxford at 24 and 54 minutes past the hour, from 5.54am until 12.24am tomorrow.

These stopping services will call at all stations between Oxford and Reading. Passengers from Radley, Culham and Appleford should change at Didcot for London and passengers from Cholsey and Goring & Streatley should change at Reading.

Express services between Didcot Parkway and Bristol will operate at normal times, but services to and from South Wales will only run hourly. Passengers for Stroud, Gloucester and Cheltenham will have to change at Swindon.

The Henley branch line will operate to a normal timetable, but the peak-hour through trains to and from London will not run off the branch and passengers should change at Twyford.

For the latest information on rail services, see the National Rail Inquiries website, or call 08457 484950.