Bow Brickhill | |
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Location | |
Place | Bow Brickhill |
Local authority | Milton Keynes |
Coordinates | 52°00′14″N 0°41′46″W / 52.004°N 0.696°WCoordinates: 52°00′14″N 0°41′46″W / 52.004°N 0.696°W |
Grid reference | SP895347 |
Operations | |
Station code | BWB |
Managed by | London Midland |
Number of platforms | 2 |
DfT category | F2 |
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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Annual rail passenger usage* | |
2011/12 | 33,636 |
2012/13 | 34,116 |
2013/14 | 36,836 |
2014/15 | 40,918 |
2015/16 | 43,016 |
History | |
30 November 1905 | 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 Bow Brickhill from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
Bow Brickhill railway station is a railway station that serves the village of Bow Brickhill in the Borough of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, and the Caldecotte, Tilbrook and Walton areas of south-east Milton Keynes itself. It is on the Bletchley — Bedford Marston Vale Line.
The station is served by London Midland local services from Bletchley to Bedford. Services are operated using Class 150/1 and Class 153 diesel multiple units. This station is one of the five stations serving Milton Keynes. The others are Wolverton, Milton Keynes Central, Bletchley and Fenny Stratford.
The London and North Western Railway opened Bow Brickhill station in 1905, significantly later than many other stations on the branch. It was one of seven halts built for the introduction of a steam rail motor service over the line. It closed temporarily during the first World War as an economy measure, from Jan 1917 to May 1919. Bow Brickhill lost its staffing and gated level crossing to modernisation in the 1980s, and since then the station has been unmanned except for two security cameras operated from other stations.