| Ridgmont | |
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| Location | |
| Place | Ridgmont |
| Local authority | Central Bedfordshire |
| Operations | |
| Station code | RID |
| Managed by | London Midland |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage | |
| 2002/03 * | 24,297 |
| 2004/05 * | 28,021 |
| 2005/06 * | 26,503 |
| 2006/07 * | 29,064 |
| 2007/08 * | 29,346 |
| 2008/09 * | 28,824 |
| 2009/10 * | 24,028 |
| 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 estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Ridgmont from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year. | |
Ridgmont railway station is a small unstaffed railway station that serves the villages of Ridgmont in Bedfordshire (about 2 km (1 mi) away on the other side of the M1 Motorway at Junction 13), Brogborough and Husborne Crawley. It also serves the large Amazon.com warehouse next door. It is also the nearest railway station to Woburn Safari Park.[1]
It is on the Bletchley — Bedford Marston Vale Line.
The station is served by London Midland Bletchley — Bedford local services. Services are operated using Class 150/1 diesel multiple units.
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Ridgmont is in sight of Junction 13 of the M1 motorway and the station is adjacent to a number of distribution centres.
It was at Ridgmont that a new Marston Vale signalling control centre was built as part of the Bedford — Bletchley route modernisation in 2004. This centre replaced all the signal boxes on the route.
In the 1860s the London and North Western Railway planned to extend the railway between Wolverton and Newport Pagnell to meet the Marston Vale line at Ridgmont, but the extension was never built.
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| London Midland
Mondays-Saturdays only
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Ridgmont station, in common with others on the Marston Vale Line, is covered by the Marston Vale Community Rail Partnership,[2] which aims to increase use of the line by involving local people.
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