Woburn Sands railway station

Woburn Sands
Woburn Sands in 2009, looking east, showing the condition of the track through the station.
Location
Place	Woburn Sands
Local authority	Milton Keynes
Coordinates
Grid reference	SP924363
Operations
Station code	WOB
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	45,743
2004/05	42,382
2005/06	40,544
2006/07	39,119
2007/08	46,377
2008/09	44,696
2009/10	38,958
2010/11	45,602
2011/12	47,428
2012/13	40,466
2013/14	42,828
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Woburn Sands from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Woburn Sands railway station serves the villages of Woburn Sands and Wavendon in the borough of Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, England. The station is on the Marston Vale Line between Bedford and Bletchley. The station is served by local trains to Bletchley and Bedford using Class 150/1 and Class 153 diesel multiple units operated by London Midland.

Station building and signal box

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

Woburn Sands has a black and white "cottage" station building, one of four of the same design that are unique to this line. Two of the others are at Fenny Stratford and Millbrook (Bedfordshire).

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

Services

At present an hourly service operates each way, operated by either a Class 150 or Class 153 DMU. There is no service on a Sunday.

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Bow Brickhill		London Midland Marston Vale Line Mondays-Saturdays only		Aspley Guise

Community Rail Partnership

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

External links

• Train times and station information for Woburn Sands railway station from National Rail
• Postcard pictures of the station and level crossing in 1920 (at end of page)