Woburn Sands railway station

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Woburn Sands

Woburn's cottage-type station building, in an 1852 illustration

Location

Place

Woburn Sands

Local authority

Milton Keynes

Operations

Station code

WOB

Managed by

London Midland

Platforms in use

Live departures and station information from National Rail

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2002/03 *

45,743

2004/05 *

42,382

2005/06 *

40,544

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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 Woburn Sands from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.

UK Railways Portal

Woburn Sands railway station serves the villages of Woburn Sands and Wavendon in the borough of Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located on the Marston Vale line between Bedford and Bletchley (Milton Keynes). The station is served by local trains to Bletchley and Bedford using Class 150/1 diesel multiple units operated by London Midland .

[edit] Station building and signal box

Woburn Sands has a black and white 'cottage' station building, a type unique to the line but which occurs four times on it. Other stations with buildings like this are Fenny Stratford and Millbrook.

Woburn recently lost its Victorian signal box to the development and modernisation of the route. Until 2004 the line was controlled by manned signal boxes located at various stations; however the entire route is now controlled from one signalling centre at Ridgmont.