Fenny Stratford railway station

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Fenny Stratford
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General information
Location Fenny Stratford, Milton Keynes
England
Coordinates 52°00′00″N0°43′01″W / 52.000°N 0.717°W / 52.000; -0.717
Grid reference SP881342
Managed by London Northwestern Railway
Platforms1
Other information
Station codeFEN
Classification DfT category F2
Key dates
17 November 1846 [1] Opened
22 May 1967Goods services withdrawn
15 July 1968Became unstaffed [2]
Passengers
2019/20Increase2.svg 26,446  Bow Brickhill

History

Opened in 1846 by the Bedford Railway, [1] Fenny Stratford station is just over 1 mile (1.6 km) from Bletchley. The station buildings are in a half-timbered Gothic Revival style that had been insisted upon by the 7th Duke of Bedford for stations close to the Woburn Estate. The buildings are now residential and Grade II listed. [4] West of the station is Watling Street, which was raised by some 6 feet 8 inches (2.03 m) to allow the railway to pass beneath; immediately west of Stag bridge in the direction of Bletchley are points leading onto the disused freight-only railway line toward Oxford via the Bletchley Flyover. The passenger line and station are protected here by trap points, but they are sited such that any runaway train caught by it would subsequently crash into the bridge. [5]

The signal box and station in 1991 Fenny Stratford signalbox and station geograph-3515699-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg
The signal box and station in 1991

The station was originally built with staggered platforms, a wedge-shaped down platform being near the Simpson Road level crossing to the east. The platforms were rebuilt in 1948 so that they faced each other in the conventional side platform arrangement. One platform was taken out of service in the 1960s, as were a number of sidings. Fenny Stratford was reduced to an unstaffed halt in 1968, freight facilities having been withdrawn the previous year. As of March 2018, the station remains unstaffed. All that now remains is one platform and an area of wasteland east of the station, before Simpson Road crossing, which was controlled by a now demolished signal box that was taken out of service in 2004.

Accidents and incidents

There was an accident here on 7 December 1925 at 8.43 pm when a bus crashed through the closed crossing gates on Simpson Road and collided with the 6.30 pm train from Cambridge to Bletchley. Six people in the bus, including the driver, were killed instantly, and four others were seriously injured. The train, however, was undamaged. [5]

Marston Vale line

Fenny Stratford station, in common with others on the Marston Vale Line, is covered by the Marston Vale Community Rail Partnership, [6] which aims to increase use of the line by involving local people and the train companies.

As of January 2016, the line through the station is single track (from Bletchley to just east of the A5, from whence it is double track until just short of Bedford St Johns).

Location

The station is on Watling Street near its junction with Aylesbury Street. The nearest post-code is MK2 2XE. [7] In the chainage notation traditionally used on the railway, it is 1  mile 1  chain (1.01 mi; 1.63  km ) from Bletchley station on the line to Bedford. [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Disused Stations - Fenny Stratford" Disused Stations Site Record; Retrieved 11 January 2017
  2. ↑ Clinker, C.R. (1978). Clinker's Register of Closed Passenger Stations and Goods Depots in England, Scotland and Wales 1830-1977. Bristol: Avon-AngliA Publications & Services. p. 160. ISBN   0-905466-19-5.
  3. ↑ Table 64 National Rail timetable, December 2022
  4. ↑ English Heritage Grade II listed building status Retrieved 2009-10-19
  5. 1 2 Simpson 1981, p. 29.
  6. ↑ Marston Vale Community Rail Partnership
  7. ↑ "Streetmap.co.uk". Archived from the original on 8 August 2018. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  8. ↑ Engineer's Line References: Bletchley south junction to Bedford RailwayCodes.org

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