Welwyn Garden City railway station

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Welwyn Garden City
Welwyn Garden City railway station
Location
Place Welwyn Garden City
Local authority Welwyn Hatfield
Operations
Station code WGC
Managed by First Capital Connect
Platforms in use 3 + 1 rarely used
Live departures and station information from National Rail
Annual Rail Passenger Usage
2004/05 * 2.002 million
2005/06 * 2.021 million
National Rail - UK railway stations

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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Welwyn Garden City from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Welwyn Garden City railway station serves the town of Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire. The station is 20 miles north of London Kings Cross on the East Coast Main Line towards Stevenage. The station is managed by First Capital Connect. The station has recently and successfully undergone a facelift, which includes new lighting, new waiting rooms and new toilets.

The station has direct access to the Howard Centre. The shopping centre also incorporates one of the station's ticket offices.

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Monday to Saturdays, trains operate half-hourly on First Capital Connect's "London-Cambridge/Peterborough" line towards London Kings Cross and hourly towards Cambridge and Peterborough respectively. Sundays there is an hourly service southbound to London and northbound to Cambridge.

Welwyn Garden City is a terminus for First Capital Connect's "London - Welwyn/Hertford/Letchworth line" stopping service. Trains operate at a 20 minute frequency to Moorgate in London weekdays and half-hourly to London Kings Cross, evenings and weekends. There is also a limited stop service to London King's Cross at peak times.

The sidings at Welwyn Garden City consist of 6 bays - currently used for the twice weekly reversal of the Freightliner stone services from Hitchin along with Rail tamper units and departmental wagon storage.

The carriage sidings just north of the station currently consist of 9 sidings with the 8 car 317/365's only able to use 5 of the sidings due to clearance issues where if they did use the other sidings, they would block the siding next to it.

Platforms 2 & 3 are in regular use for services to/from London Kings Cross, Peterborough and Cambridge, also used for terminating trains for the carriage sidings and where trains from the carriage sidings form into passenger service.

Platform 4 is used for services to/from Moorgate, also used for terminating trains for the carriage sidings and where trains from the carriage sidings form into passenger service.

Platform 1 is the reserve platform and is not in regular use

Preceding station   First Capital Connect   Following station
Great Northern semi-fast
Great Northern stopping
towards Cambridge
Great Northern stopping
Great Northern stopping Terminus

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