Oakham railway station

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Oakham

Location

Place

Oakham

Local authority

Rutland

Operations

Station code

OKM

Managed by

East Midlands Trains

Platforms in use

Live departures and station information from National Rail

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

0.193 million

2005/06 *

0.189 million

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

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Oakham railway station serves the town of Oakham in Rutland, England. The station is situated almost halfway between Leicester – 43 km (27 miles) to the west – and Peterborough – 41 km (25 miles) eastward.

Oakham is Rutland's only surviving passenger railway station. The line from Oakham to Kettering via Corby normally carries freight traffic only, although it does see occasional use as a diversionary route for passenger trains between Leicester and London. Trains thus diverted do not, however, call at Oakham.

Since 2007 the station buildings have been used as the headquarters of the charitable organization StudentForce for Sustainability [1].

[edit] Services

From Oakham there is a generally hourly service operated by CrossCountry, with some additional peak-hour trains, in both directions each day; westbound to Leicester and Birmingham New Street, and eastbound to Peterborough, then either Norwich or Cambridge and Stansted Airport.

Connections to London, with just one change of train, are good: journeys to both London Kings Cross, via Peterborough, and London St Pancras International, via Leicester, can be completed in around 1h 50 – and from November 2007 St Pancras station will also be home to Eurostar international services, putting Oakham within easy reach of France and Belgium.

Despite managing the station, East Midlands Trains only operates three daily services to the station: two early morning services to Norwich and a late night service to Nottingham. However, from December 2008 they plan to run a return train to London via the new station at Corby during the week.

East Midlands Trains are looking at the possibilities of introducing a northbound service from its new station at Corby from 2010 which would call also at Oakham. This would be a major plus for both towns - giving Corby a northbound service and Oakham a direct London service each hour.^[1] This would also mean that every county of England would have a direct railway service to London as Rutland is the only one not to have one since Wrexham & Shropshire began running trains to Shropshire.

Preceding station		Following station
Melton Mowbray	CrossCountry Birmingham - Stansted Airport	Stamford
Melton Mowbray	East Midlands Trains Nottingham-Norwich	Stamford
	From December 2008
Melton Mowbray	East Midlands Trains Melton Mowbray - London	Corby