Bow Brickhill railway station

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Bow Brickhill National Rail
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Location
Place Bow Brickhill
Local authority Milton Keynes
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Grid reference SP895347
Operations
Station code BWB
Managed by London Midland
Number of platforms 2
DfT category F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2002/03  24,928
2004/05 Decrease 22,415
2005/06 Decrease 19,336
2006/07 Increase 26,993
2007/08 Increase 28,648
2008/09 Increase 31,664
2009/10 Decrease 26,938
2010/11 Increase 35,894
2011/12 Decrease 33,636
2012/13 Increase 34,116
2013/14 Increase 36,836
History
1902[citation needed] Opened
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Bow Brickhill from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Bow Brickhill railway station is a railway station that serves the village of Bow Brickhill in the Borough of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, and the Caldecotte, Tilbrook and Walton areas of south-east Milton Keynes itself. It is on the BletchleyBedford Marston Vale Line.

The station is served by London Midland local services from Bletchley to Bedford. Services are operated using Class 150/1 and Class 153 diesel multiple units. This station is one of the five stations serving Milton Keynes. The others are Wolverton, Milton Keynes Central, Bletchley and Fenny Stratford.

History

The London and North Western Railway opened Bow Brickhill station in 1902,[citation needed] significantly later than many other stations on the branch. Bow Brickhill lost its staffing and gated level crossing to modernisation in the 1980s, and since then the station has been unmanned except for two security cameras operated from other stations.

Until 2004 Bow Brickhill was unique on the line for having staggered platforms. The purpose of this is so that road traffic on the level crossing is not held up by trains standing still in the platform. However recently a number of other stations on the line including Aspley Guise have been rebuilt to have their platforms staggered also as part of the Bedford-Bletchley route modernisation.

Another oddity about Bow Brickill is that the road crossing here, the V10 Brickhill Street, has a roundabout immediately on either side of the crossing. This causes traffic jams whenever the crossing barriers are down, as each roundabout clogs with the traffic queue and remains so for up to ten minutes.

Services

Preceding station   National Rail National Rail   Following station
London Midland
Mondays-Saturdays only

Community Rail Partnership

Bow Brickhill station, in common with others on the Marston Vale Line, is covered by the Marston Vale Community Rail Partnership,[1] which aims to increase use of the line by involving local people.

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