Fenny Stratford railway station

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Fenny Stratford

Location

Place

Fenny Stratford, Milton Keynes

Local authority

Milton Keynes

Operations

Station code

FEN

Managed by

London Midland

Platforms in use

Live departures and station information from National Rail

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

18,507

2005/06 *

18,683

History

Key dates

Opened 1846

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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Fenny Stratford from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.

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Fenny Stratford railway station is a railway station that serves the Fenny Stratford area of Milton Keynes. It is located 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 153 single car diesel multiple units. This station is one of the five stations serving Milton Keynes. The others are Wolverton, Milton Keynes Central, Bletchley and Bow Brickhill.

[edit] Details and History

Fenny Stratford Station is currently un-staffed, with no ticketing facilities. Passengers are required to purchase tickets from Silverlink staff on-board. Immediately to the west after the bridge carrying the V4 Watling Street (formerly the A5) there are points connecting with a branch leading onto the freight only Oxford line via the Bletchley flyover. The passenger line and station are protected here by trap points, however they are badly sited and any runaway train caught by it would subsequently crash into the bridge. Fenny Stratford has a black and white station building now in private ownership. The building is one of a number like it on the line but unlike any anywhere else. Until the mid 1960s, Fenny Stratford had two platforms and a number of sidings, however all that is now present is a single platform and a lot of wasteland to the east of the station before the level crossing. The signal box here was taken out of use in 2004.