Lidlington railway station explained

Lidlington
Symbol Location:gb
Symbol:rail
Borough:Lidlington, Central Bedfordshire
Country:England
Coordinates:52.042°N -0.559°W
Grid Name:Grid reference
Manager:London Northwestern Railway
Platforms:2
Code:LID
Classification:DfT category F2
Footnotes:Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Zoom:13

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.

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.

Services

All services at Lidlington are operated by London Northwestern Railway.

The typical off-peak service is one train per hour in each direction between and which runs on weekdays and Saturdays only using DMUs. There is no Sunday service.

Community Rail Partnership

Lidlington station, in common with others on the Marston Vale Line, is covered by the Marston Vale Community Rail Partnership,[2] which aims to increase use of the line by involving local people.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Disused Stations: Lidlington Station. www.disused-stations.org.uk. 2019-10-25.
  2. http://www.marstonvalecommunityrail.org.uk/ Marston Vale Community Rail Partnership