Brookmans Park railway station

Brookmans Park railway station serves the village of Brookmans Park in Hertfordshire, England. The station is located 14 miles 37 chains (23.3 km) north of London Kings Cross on the East Coast Main Line, on the stretch between Finsbury Park and Hatfield.[2][3]

Brookmans Park
The station's 4 platforms
Brookmans Park
Location of Brookmans Park in Hertfordshire
LocationBrookmans Park
Local authorityBorough of Welwyn Hatfield
Grid referenceTL241040
Managed byGreat Northern
Station codeBPK
DfT categoryE
Number of platforms4
National Rail annual entry and exit
2014–15 0.230 million[1]
2015–16 0.241 million[1]
2016–17 0.244 million[1]
2017–18 0.234 million[1]
2018–19 0.233 million[1]
Railway companies
Original companyLondon and North Eastern Railway
Post-groupingLondon and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
19 July 1926Station opened
Other information
External links
WGS8451.721°N 0.205°W / 51.721; -0.205
 London transport portal
View southward, towards London

History

The station was opened by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) on 19 July 1926.[4]

On 21 May 1942, during WW2 Anthony Eden met Russian Peoples' Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov, along with his staff on Brookmans Park railway station platform, bought by a sleeper train pulled by Class A4 locomotive Number 4495 'Golden Fleece' so they could be driven to Chequers to meet Winston Churchill to sign the Anglo-Soviet Treaty.[5]

Facilities

In Autumn 2008, a Shere self-service ticket machine was installed opposite the booking office window, replacing an earlier Avantix self-service machine.

Uniquely, contactless payment cards can be used to touch in and out to pay fares for travel to and from Brookmans Park, but Oyster cards cannot.

Station layout

The station has four platforms in total, two island platforms on both sides, but only platforms 1 & 4 are used regularly, platforms 2 & 3 are only used during line disruption or engineering work. The west side serves northbound services and another island platform serving southbound services which lies to the east. The station car park parallels the island platforms to the east.

The platforms are reached by a steep footbridge, the station building (an LNER survivor) being a part-time booking office at the NW extremity of the station.[6]

Ticket office opening times and station staffing hours

Below are the current opening and staffing times for Brookmans Park, as of 2010.[7]

Ticket Office Hours
DayOpensCloses
Monday to Friday06:5010:00
Saturday--
Sunday--
Station Staffing Hours
DayFromUntil
Monday to Friday06:3510:15
Saturday--
Sunday--

Route
Preceding station National Rail Following station
Great Northern
Great Northern stopping

Services

There is a basic weekday off-peak service of 3tph in both directions, southbound to Moorgate and northbound to Welwyn Garden City. This drops to every half-hour at weekends. Late evening & weekend services used to run to and from Kings Cross rather than using the Northern City Line, but from 13 December 2015 Great Northern introduced a weekend service on the line and extended evening hours until the end of service.[8][9]

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References
  1. "Station usage estimates". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.
  2. Yonge, John (September 2006) [1994]. Jacobs, Gerald (ed.). 2: Eastern. Railway Track Diagrams (3rd ed.). Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps. map 15A. ISBN 0-9549866-2-8.
  3. Baker, S.K. (April 2007) [1977]. Rail Atlas Great Britain & Ireland (11th ed.). Hersham: Oxford Publishing Co. p. 24, section A2. ISBN 978-0-86093-602-2. 0704/K.
  4. Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 46. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.
  5. Allen, Mike. "Top secret WWII Russian visit to Brookmans Park 1942". North Mymms History.uk. North Mymms History Project. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  6. "Brookmans Park Station Plan". National Rail. Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 12 February 2011.
  7. "Brookmans Park". First Capital Connect. Archived from the original on 31 December 2008. Retrieved 11 June 2010.
  8. GB eNRT December 2015 Edition, Table 24
  9. "Seven-day-a-week service to the City better for late-returning commuters and weekend shoppers" Great Northern website article 5 November 2015; Retrieved 2 February 2016


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