Lidlington railway station

Lidlington railway station serves the village of Lidlington in Bedfordshire, England. The station's two platforms once faced each other, either side of the double tracks. This has since been modified to have staggered platforms either side of the level crossing in order to reduce the time the barriers spend down.

Lidlington
The former station building at Lidlington station, now a private home.
Location
PlaceLidlington
Local authorityCentral Bedfordshire
Coordinates52.042°N 0.559°W / 52.042; -0.559
Grid referenceSP989391
Operations
Station codeLID
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 28,742
2015/16 25,794
2016/17 27,326
2017/18 27,510
2018/19 26,888
National Rail – UK railway stations
  • Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Lidlington from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

The former station building is now a private home.

History

Opened in 1846 by the Bedford Railway, 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.[1]

Lidlington station had a station building, one of four of the same design that are unique to this line. The station 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. The station building is now a private home.[1]

Services

An hourly service operates in each direction on weekdays & Saturdays, to Bedford eastbound and Bletchley westbound. There is no Sunday service.[2] Services are operated by Class 230/1 multiple units.

Preceding station   National Rail   Following station
London Northwestern Railway
Marston Vale Line
Mondays-Saturdays only
Millbrook

Community Rail Partnership

Lidlington 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: Lidlington Station". www.disused-stations.org.uk. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
  2. Table 64 National Rail timetable, May 2016
  3. Marston Vale Community Rail Partnership


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