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The station has always been busy. In addition to current services, formerly there were others over the [[Wycombe Railway]], [[Oxford, Witney and Fairford Railway]], and [[Blenheim and Woodstock Branch Line]]. {{efn|The recently published ''Lost Railways of Oxfordshire''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Moors|first1=Terry|title=Lost Railways of Oxfordshire|date=2009|publisher=Countryside Books|location=Newbury, Berkshire|isbn=978 1 84674 110 4|edition=First}}</ref> gives information on all three of these services and ''The Woodstock Branch''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Lingard|first1=Richard|title=The Woodstock Branch|date=1973|publisher=Oxford Publishing Co|location=Oxford|isbn=978 0 902888 23 4|edition=First}}</ref> gives an overview of how the service to Oxford changed over the line's life.}} Through trains from the north to the [[Southern Railway (Great Britain)|Southern Railway]] also typically changed locomotives at Oxford.
It was for a time known as '''Oxford General''' station to distinguish it from the [[London and North Western Railway]]'s {{rws|Oxford Rewley Road}} terminus of the [[Varsity Line]] to {{rws|Cambridge}}, which was adjacent and came under joint management in 1933.{{cn|date=May 2020}} On 1 October 1951 [[British Rail]]ways closed Rewley Road station to passengers and transferred its services to this station.<ref name=Butt/>
South of the station immediately west of the railway tracks is [[Osney Cemetery]], established in 1848 just before the current station site. Nearby is the site of the former [[Osney Abbey]].
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