Credible, deliverable and affordable. Not three words we normally hear when it comes to proposals to improve the rail infrastructure in Oxfordshire.

And yet, these are exactly the words used to describe the East-West rail link in an official study into the proposed route.

For the first time in decades, there is the realistic prospect of new rail links serving Oxfordshire, in particular two trains every hour between Milton Keynes and Oxford. Ultimately, we could see a rail line linking Swindon and Oxford with Cambridge and East Anglia.

Supporters of the link are talking about services running between Oxford and Milton Keynes by 2012.

We hope they are right.