Bletchley railway station
Bletchley 
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| Location | |
| Place | West Bletchley |
| Local authority | Borough of Milton Keynes |
| Grid reference | SP868337 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | BLY |
| Managed by | London Midland |
| Number of platforms | 6 |
| DfT category | C2 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.849 million |
| – Interchange |
74,673 |
| 2012/13 |
0.881 million |
| – Interchange |
75,916 |
| 2013/14 |
0.928 million |
| – Interchange |
80,126 |
| 2014/15 |
0.989 million |
| – Interchange |
85,134 |
| 2015/16 |
1.063 million |
| – Interchange |
96,701 |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 17 November 1846 |
| Original company | London and Birmingham Railway |
| Pre-grouping | London and North Western Railway |
| Post-grouping | London, Midland and Scottish Railway |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Bletchley from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Bletchley is a railway station that serves the southern parts of Milton Keynes, England (especially Bletchley itself), and the north-eastern parts of the Buckinghamshire district of Aylesbury Vale.
It includes a junction of the West Coast Main Line with the Bletchley-Bedford Marston Vale Line.
This is one of the five railway stations serving Milton Keynes. The others are Milton Keynes Central, Wolverton, Fenny Stratford and Bow Brickhill.
It is the nearest main line station for Bletchley Park, the WW2 codebreaking centre, and for Stadium mk, the home of Milton Keynes Dons F.C., at present about 30 minutes' walk. Fenny Stratford is closer, on the Marston Vale Line.
There are ticket barriers controlling access to the platforms.
The London and Birmingham Railway, now part of the "West Coast Main Line", was officially opened from London Euston as far as Denbigh Hall (approximately one mile north of Bletchley station) on 9 April 1838, where a temporary station was built. The line was fully opened in September 1838, and there seemed no apparent need for a station in the Bletchley area at all. It was not until 1846 that Bletchley station was built following the opening of the line from Bedford. Originally a major intercity station, that role passed to Milton Keynes Central in 1982 when the latter was built, long after the east–west route had been downgraded, taking Bletchley's importance as a junction with it. Today, no Virgin Trains stop at Bletchley.
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