 It was eventually curtailed at Heathrow Airport, but even then Thames Transit could not make it pay and in 1996 replaced coaches with minibuses and renumbered it X39.Stagecoach in Oxfordshire later cut the route at Henley, and in 1999 it was taken over by Thames Travel.On 30 August 2010, a drunk 21 year old Thomas Roby grabbed hold of the steering wheel of an Oxford Tube and caused it to overturn on an embankment on the M40.