Milton Keynes Central railway station

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Milton Keynes Central

Location

Place

Milton Keynes

Local authority

Milton Keynes

Operations

Managed by

Silverlink

Platforms in use

Annual Passenger Usage

2004/05 **

3.815 million

History

Key dates

Opened 1982

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Milton Keynes Central is a railway station that serves the central area of Milton Keynes. The station is located on the West Coast Main Line where it is served by Virgin Trains inter-city services and by Silverlink County local services. It lies exactly 50 miles north of London Euston station.

This station is one of the five stations serving Milton Keynes. The others are Wolverton (Milton Keynes North), Bletchley (Milton Keynes South), Fenny Stratford (also Milton Keynes South) and Bow Brickhill (Milton Keynes South-east). In addition, Woburn Sands railway station is just outside the Milton Keynes boundary and serves the south-east of the Borough.

1 Scale and planned development
2 Local facilities
3 Rail services
4 Trivia
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Scale and planned development

At present, there are three south-bound tracks and two north-bound tracks. In May 2006, the Department of Transport confirmed funding for a third north-bound track (for Inter-city services) and a fourth south-bound track (for services to Bedford).^[1] In June 2005, Silverlink announced their intent to extend their Marston Vale Line service from Bedford to Milton Keynes Central, when the new platform is built. (The service currently terminates at Bletchley). On 4 December 2006, work began on both projects, with completion scheduled for December 2008.

More speculatively, a "strong" case has been made to Government to reopen the historic Varsity Line from Oxford to Bletchley and extend it to Milton Keynes Central.^[2]

[edit] Local facilities

The station is the terminus for many bus services and is on the Milton Keynes redway system, a network of cycle paths. The station itself has a small shop and there are other shops and restaurants on the south side of the station square. There are a number of hotels on Midsummer Boulevard (which begins opposite the station and leads up into Central Milton Keynes).

The station square itself is a favourite site for skateboarding and freestyle BMX and as a result the granite facings of the planting surrounds have suffered from the continuous bumping and grinding. This has lessened somewhat since the opening of a dedicated skateboarding park (Sk8 MK) close to the central bus station.^[3] There has been very limited maintenance of the square, which has led local commentators to speculate that Milton Keynes Partnership has plans to alter the space.

[edit] Rail services

West Coast Main Line

Legend

		Edinburgh Waverley for ECML
		Haymarket
		Glasgow Central
		for SPT Network
		Motherwell for SPT Network
		Carstairs for SPT Network
		Carstairs South Junction
		Lockerbie
		Carlisle for Tyne Valley Line,
		Cumbrian Coast Line and
		Glasgow South Western Line
		Penrith
		Oxenholme Lake District
		for Windermere Line
		Lancaster
		Preston

		Wigan North Western
		Bolton
		Warrington Bank Quay
		Liverpool Lime Street
		Runcorn
		Weaver Junction

		Manchester Piccadilly

		Stockport
			Cheadle Hulme Junction
		Crewe North Junction
		Crewe
		Stoke-on-Trent
			Stone Junction
		Norton Bridge Junction
		Stafford

		Colwich Junction
		Lichfield Trent Valley
		Wolverhampton
		Tamworth
		Birmingham New Street
		Nuneaton
		Coventry

		Rugby for Birmingham Loop

		Northampton

		Milton Keynes Central
		Watford Junction
		London Euston

Inter-city passengers wishing to go to Northampton should change to a north-bound Silverlink service here. Passengers for all stations to Bedford should take a south-bound Silverlink service here as far as Bletchley and change to the Marston Vale Line. Virgin Trains also provide a coach service ("VT99") to London Luton Airport and Luton railway station.

[edit] Trivia

The station and its plaza was used in the movie Superman IV as a substitute for the United Nations building. Other scenes were shot in the Central Milton Keynes area.