Cheddington railway station

Cheddington
National Rail
General information
LocationCheddington, Buckinghamshire
England
Grid referenceSP922185
Managed byLondon Northwestern Railway
Platforms4
Other information
Station codeCED
ClassificationDfT category E
Key dates
9 April 1838Opened as Aylesbury Junction
1850[1]renamed Cheddington Junction
1870renamed Cheddington
2 December 1963Closed to freight
Passengers
2018/19Increase 84,132
2019/20Decrease 78,694
2020/21Decrease 12,408
2021/22Increase 32,180
2022/23Increase 48,014
Location
Map
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Cheddington railway station serves the village of Cheddington, in Buckinghamshire, England, and the surrounding villages, including Ivinghoe and Mentmore. The station is 36 miles 8 chains (36.10 mi; 58.10 km) north west of London Euston on the West Coast Main Line.[2] It is operated by London Northwestern Railway, which also provides all services.

View northbound from Platform 1 in 2012

The station has four platforms, each with 12 carriage capacity, but only platforms 3 and 4 are used regularly and platforms 1 and 2 are used only during engineering works and disruption. Platforms 2 and 3 form a centre island. The main station buildings are located on Platform 1 adjacent to the car park. Access to the other platforms is gained by a footbridge.

The ticket office closed on 28 March 2013 and the station is now unstaffed.[3] Although starting in December 2017 there is a security guard on the station around the clock, the ticket building is still closed.[citation needed]

Cheddington was formerly a junction for the London & North Western Railway's branch line to Aylesbury High Street. This branch terminated in the east of Aylesbury and made no connection to the GCR/Metropolitan Railway station in that town. The branch closed to passengers in 1953 but with freight services continuing until 1964. The trackless edge of the Aylesbury branch platform is still in evidence at Cheddington and part of the old track bed of the branch is now used as the station's approach road.

Just over 1.2 miles (2 km) north of this station, on the stretch of line between Cheddington and Leighton Buzzard, is Bridego Bridge, the scene of the Great Train Robbery of 1963.

  1. ^ Railway Passenger Stations by M.Quick page 121
  2. ^ Engineer's Line References: Euston to Crewe RailwayCodes.org
  3. ^ NRES - Cheddington station facilities National Rail Enquiries website; Retrieved 3 September 2013