Aspley Guise railway station

Aspley Guise railway station serves the village of Aspley Guise in Bedfordshire, England. It is on the Bletchley – Bedford Marston Vale Line. The station is served by West Midlands Trains local services, operating under the London Northwestern Railway brand. The services operate using Class 230/1 diesel multiple-unit trains which are upcycled London Underground D78 Stock.

Aspley Guise
Location
Place	Aspley Guise
Local authority	Central Bedfordshire
Coordinates	52.021°N 0.632°W / 52.021; -0.632
Grid reference	SP939367
Operations
Station code	APG
Managed by	London Northwestern Railway
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15	10,086
2015/16	9,564
2016/17	9,454
2017/18	9,962
2018/19	11,636
History
1905	Station opened
1 January 1917	Station closed
5 May 1919	Station reopened
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Aspley Guise from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

In 2016/17, the station was the least used in Bedfordshire.

History

Opened by the London and North Western Railway in October 1905, it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in the 1923 Grouping. The station passed to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

It was built initially as one of seven new halts for a steam rail motor service between Bedford & Bletchley inaugurated in the autumn of 1905 and was initially constructed of old sleepers; it temporarily closed for two years (January 1917-May 1919) as a World War 1 economy measure.[1] Under LMS auspices, it had its platforms rebuilt and these were lengthened again by BR in 1959.

When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Network SouthEast until the Privatisation of British Railways. The initial operating franchise was awarded to Silverlink County; the franchise was transferred to London Midland on 11 November 2007.

Services

An hourly service operates each way to Bedford and to Bletchley, Mondays to Saturdays with no Sunday service.[2]

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Woburn Sands		London Northwestern Railway Marston Vale Line Mondays-Saturdays only		Ridgmont

Community Rail Partnership

Aspley Guise station, in common with others on the Marston Vale Line, is covered by the Marston Vale Community Rail Partnership,[3] which aims to increase use of the line by involving local people.

References

1. Disused Stations - Aspley GuiseDisused Stations Site Record; Retrieved 7 September 2016
2. Table 64 National Rail timetable, May 2016
3. Marston Vale Community Rail Partnership

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.

External links

• Train times and station information for Aspley Guise railway station from National Rail
• Trainspots: Aspley Guise Station
• Station on navigable O.S. map