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==Grouping of the railways==
[[File:Fenny Stratford station.jpg|thumb|Fenny Stratford station]]At the beginning of 1923, the main line railways of Great Britain were "grouped" into one or other of four new, large companies, in compliance with the [[Railways Act 1921]]. The LNWR and the Midland Railway were constituents of the new London Midland and Scottish Railway. The Great Western Railway absorbed a number of other concerns and continued under the same name. The Great Northern Railway and the Great Eastern Railway were constituents of the new [[London and North Eastern Railway]].<ref name = robinson>D C Robinson, ''Railway Amalgamation in Great Britain'', The Railway Gazette, 1923</ref>
The whole of the Oxford to Cambridge line was thus part of the new LMS. In the 1930s, the major railways adopted a novel form of collaboration in the interest of reducing operating expenses. In 1934 the Stationmaster of the GWR's Oxford General station took over the management of the LMS's Rewley Road station.{{cn|date=May 2020}} Cartage lorries in Oxford carried the initials of both companies.<ref name = simpson1-24>Simpson, volume 1 page 24</ref>
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