Woburn Sands railway station

Woburn Sands railway station serves the town of Woburn Sands and village of Wavendon in the borough of Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, England. The station is on the Marston Vale line between Bedford and Bletchley, about 4 miles (6.5 km) east of Bletchley station. The station is served by local trains to Bletchley and Bedford using Class 230/1 multiple units. This station is one of the six stations serving the Milton Keynes urban area.[lower-alpha 1]

Woburn Sands
Woburn Sands in 2020, looking west showing the double track and platforms 1 & 2
Location
PlaceWoburn Sands
Local authorityMilton Keynes
Coordinates52.018°N 0.654°W / 52.018; -0.654
Grid referenceSP924363
Operations
Station codeWOB
Managed byLondon Northwestern Railway
Number of platforms2
DfT categoryF2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 42,408
2015/16 44,674
2016/17 38,942
2017/18 46,606
2018/19 51,606
History
1846[1]Opened
National Rail – UK railway stations
  • Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Woburn Sands from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

Station building and signal box
Woburn's cottage-type station building, in an 1852 illustration

Woburn Sands has a black and white "cottage" station building, one of four of the same design that are unique to this line. Two of the others remain at Fenny Stratford and Milbrook. The building is in a half-timbered Gothic Revival style that had been insisted upon by the 7th Duke of Bedford for stations close to the Woburn Estate. It is Grade II listed.[2] It opened with the line in 1846;[1] between 1871 and July 1967 had a sizeable goods yard serving various local businesses (including a brick factory and gas works).[1]

In August 2004, Woburn Sands lost its Victorian signal box to the development and modernisation of the route.[1] Until 2004 the line was controlled by staffed signal boxes located at various stations; but the entire line is now controlled from one signalling centre at Ridgmont.

Services

At present an hourly service operates each way, operated by either a Class 150, Class 153 or Class 230 DMU. There is no service on a Sunday.[3]

Preceding station   National Rail   Following station
London Northwestern Railway
Mondays-Saturdays only
  Future Services  
Bletchley   East West Rail
Oxford-Cambridge		   Ridgmont

Community Rail Partnership

Woburn Sands station, in common with others on the Marston Vale line, is covered by the Marston Vale Community Rail Partnership,[4] which aims to increase use of the line by involving local people.

Location
Woburn Sands station zoom in
Mapping © OpenStreetMap contributors

The station is on Station Road, about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) from the town centre. The nearest post-code is MK17 8UD.[5] In the chainage notation traditionally used on the railway, it is 4 miles 4 chains (4.05 mi; 6.52 km) from Bletchley station on the line to Bedford.[6]

Footnotes
  1. The others are Wolverton, Milton Keynes Central, Bletchley, Fenny Stratford and Bow Brickhill.
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References
  1. "Disused Stations Site Record - Woburn Sands" Retrieved 7 September 2016
  2. English Heritage Grade II listed building status Retrieved 2009-10-19
  3. Table 64 National Rail timetable, May 2016
  4. Marston Vale Community Rail Partnership
  5. Streetmap.co.uk
  6. Engineer's Line References: Bletchley south junction to Bedford RailwayCodes.org

See also
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