Foxton | |
Symbol Location: | gb |
Symbol: | rail |
Borough: | Foxton, South Cambridgeshire |
Country: | England |
Grid Name: | Grid reference |
Manager: | Great Northern |
Platforms: | 2 |
Code: | FXN |
Classification: | DfT category F2 |
Years: | 1 April 1852 |
Events: | Station opened |
Footnotes: | Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Foxton railway station serves the village of Foxton in Cambridgeshire, England. It is from .[1] The station is operated by Great Northern.
It is located adjacent to the busy A10 level crossing, which is monitored from the nearby signal box. A freight-only branch (the Barrington Light Railway) diverges to the west beyond the crossing south of the station, serving the nearby Barrington cement works & quarry.[2]
All services at Foxton are operated by Great Northern using EMUs.
The typical off-peak service is one train per hour in each direction between and . Additional services call at the station during the peak hours.
Platform 2 (for trains to Cambridge) was extended in Summer 2017 to allow 8-car trains to call without straddling the level crossing behind.[3] Platform 1 was not lengthened, as it is located before the crossing and 8-car trains use Selective door operation to open the doors on the front four carriages only.[4]