Leighton Buzzard railway station

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Leighton Buzzard

Location

Place

Linslade

Local authority

South Bedfordshire

Operations

Station code

LBZ

Managed by

London Midland

Platforms in use

Live departures and station information from National Rail

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

1.200 million

2005/06 *

1.279 million

National Rail - UK railway stations

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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

UK Railways Portal

Leighton Buzzard railway station (actually in Linslade) is a railway station that serves the Leighton Buzzard and Linslade area of Bedfordshire and nearby parts of Buckinghamshire. The station is 64 km (40¾ miles) north west of London Euston and is served by London Midland local services from Northampton to London on the West Coast Main Line.

The Great Train Robbery of 1963 occurred just south of this station, at Bridego Bridge near Ledburn, at a bridge on the southbound stretch towards Cheddington.

Page's Park railway station, terminus for the Leighton Buzzard Railway (a narrow gauge heritage railway) is on the opposite side of the town.

Until the 1960s the station was the start of a branch to Dunstable and Luton, with a junction just south of the present station. There have been past proposals about reopening this route, as little of it has been lost to new construction, either for rail or as a guided busway.

Just to the north of the station are the Linslade tunnels. These are arranged unusually for a four track main line: the southbound slow line has a tunnel to itself as does the northbound fast line, however the northbound slow and southbound fast lines share a tunnel. This stems from the fact that the line was built as double-track and when quadrupled, the two extra lines could only be placed along both sides, as single-track tunnels.