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Bow Brickhill railway station

Bow Brickhill National Rail
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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°W / 52.004; -0.696Coordinates: 52°00′14″N 0°41′46″W / 52.004°N 0.696°W / 52.004; -0.696
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
Annual rail passenger usage*
2011/12 Decrease 33,636
2012/13 Increase 34,116
2013/14 Increase 36,836
2014/15 Increase 40,918
2015/16 Increase 43,016
History
30 November 1905 Opened
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* 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.
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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 BletchleyBedford 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.


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