Arlesey railway station

Infobox UK station
name = Arlesey
code = ARL


caption = The small station building
manager = First Capital Connect
locale = Arlesey
borough = Mid Bedfordshire
usage0405 = 0.327
usage0506 = 0.350
usage0607 = 0.369
platforms = 2
years = 7 August 1850
events = Station opens as Arlsey and Shefford Road
years1 = March 1860
events1 = Station renamed Arlesey and Shefford Road
years2 = July 1893
events2 = Station renamed Arlesey
years3 = July 1895
events3 = Station renamed Arlesey and Shefford Road
years4 = 1 March 1933
events4 = Station renamed Arlesey and Henlow
years5 = 5 January 1959
events5 = Station closes
years6 = 3 October 1988
events6 = Rebuilt station opens

Arlesey railway station serves the town of Arlesey in Bedfordshire, England. The station is 60 km (37 miles) north of London Kings Cross on the "London-Peterborough" line. First Capital Connect manage and operate trains that serve the station.

This station was opened on October 3 1988 on the site of the old Arlesey and Henlow station which was closed, together with the adjacent Three Counties station, to passengers on 5 January 1959 and goods on 28 November 1960 (source: Bedfordshire Libraries). This was not as a result of the "Beeching Report", which was not published until 1963, but was due rather to declining receipts.

It was designed to be fully accessible to wheelchairs although as of 2006 the up platform to London Kings Cross is only accessible until 12.30 p.m. when the booking clerk finishes duty for the day. The down platform to Peterborough northbound is fully accessible at all times. However this is of no use to wheelchair users who cannot leave their chair as there are no facilities for 'loading and unloading'. The nearest stations for this are at Hatfield to the south and Peterborough to the North.

History

Opened by the Great Northern Railway, it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. It was then closed by the British Railways Board.

However the line remained open, and trains from the Intercity Sector and Network SouthEast passed through when Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s. During this period, in 1988, the station was rebuilt and reopened to traffic, served initially by Network SouthEast until the Privatisation of British Railways.

ervices

There is a half-hourly service southbound to London Kings Cross and northbound to Peterborough with an hourly service in each direction on Sundays.

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External links

rail line
previous = Three Counties
Line open; Station closed
next = Biggleswade
route = London and North Eastern Railway
Great Northern Railway
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