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Locations along the line

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Bletchley

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Several new sections have been fitted to the Bletchley Flyover as part of its refurbishment for East West Rail duties. This view looks south from ...
Mark Bartlett 25/07/2022

LNR Vivarail DEMU 230003 in Platform 5 at Bletchley, ready to make another run to Bedford on the Marston Vale service. There are three of these units ...
Mark Bartlett 25/07/2022

350243, in the previous London Midland livery, leaves Platform 4 at Bletchley heading for Euston on 25th July 2022. In the background, the additional ...
Mark Bartlett 25/07/2022

66.198 hauls an empty car train North at Bletchley on 20th February 2015. Notice the mothballed flyover in the background, and the platform extension ...
Ken Strachan 20/02/2015

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Fenny Stratford

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This presently disused bridge carries the link from Fenny Stratford Junction, on the Bedford Bletchley line, to the Bletchley Flyover as it climbs ...
Mark Bartlett 25/07/2022

A Silverlink service from Bedford to Bletchley with 150129, crosses the level crossing on the approach to Fenny Stratford on 24 February 2007. ...
John McIntyre 24/02/2007

24th May 2019 brought an opportunity to try out the Class 230 DMUs on the Bletchley to Bedford line. I found these converted Underground trains very ...
John Yellowlees 24/05/2019

Platform view at Fenny Stratford station on the Bedford to Bletchley line, looking west towards Bletchley on 24 February 2007. ...
John McIntyre 24/02/2007

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Bow Brickhill

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Woburn Sands

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The Station Hotel, unlike the station, is still engaged in its original business; and is still named after the station. The pub sign is nice - an ...
Ken Strachan 27/08/2010

If you like your stations to be pink, try Woburn Sands, between Bedford and Bletchley, seen here in August 2010. But don't come by car - the station ...
Ken Strachan 27/08/2010

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Aspley Guise

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Ridgmont

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Marston Vale services between Bletchley and Bedford do not normally operate on Sundays but on 24th July 2022 the Bedford River Festival justified a ...
Mark Bartlett 24/07/2022

A community group has restored the station building at Ridgmont from near derelict condition to create a splendid small museum and a tea shop. ...
Mark Bartlett 24/07/2022

The old station at Ridgmont, just a stone's throw from the M1, seen here in October 2011 being restored and upgraded. The sign beyond the skip says ...
Ken Strachan 21/10/2011

The station building at Ridgmont on the old Oxford - Cambridge route, seen from the level crossing in 1977. ...
Ian Dinmore //1977

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Lidlington

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The density of housing in this village see image 42780 makes it a favourite as a stopping point for East-West services, when this line re-opens to ...
Ken Strachan 14/09/2016

The 18.41 to Bletchley arriving at Lidlington, Bedfordshire, on 18 April 2013. The platform on the right has been rebuilt on the far side of the ...
Ken Strachan 18/04/2013

The former station building at Lidlington has been extended substantially in the Bedford direction (left). Notice the two heights of platform - both ...
Ken Strachan 18/04/2013

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Millbrook (Bedfordshire)

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Things to do at Millbrook: (1) Assure a concerned passenger that she hasn't missed her train for Bedford - it will depart from the other platform; (2) ...
Ken Strachan 10/09/2015

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Stewartby

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A class 150 for Bedford leaves Stewartby, just after 3pm on 6th September 2017. There aren't nearly as many brickworks chimneys as there used to be, ...
Ken Strachan 06/09/2017

Brick City. Stewartby (originally Wootton Pillinge), Bedfordshire, on the Oxford - Bedford line in 1974. Built to house workers of the London ...
Ian Dinmore 16/02/1974

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Wootton Broadmead

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Kempston Hardwick

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They operate to fine tolerances on the Marston Vale line. At Kempston Hardwick, one of the intermediate stations between Bedford and Bletchley, I ...
Mark Bartlett 25/07/2022

The 2.35 to Bedford had little custom. This station is on a 3.5 mile straight, but speeds are still slow, due to frequent level crossings and halts. ...
Ken Strachan 22/01/2010

Sleeper spotting for dummies. As a matter of record, the wooden sleepers heading East are interrupted by concrete sleepers across the level crossing. ...
Ken Strachan 22/01/2010

These sadly decayed gates on the South side of the level crossing once controlled access to the private sidings at Eastwood's Brickworks, which are ...
Ken Strachan 22/01/2010

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Kempston and Elstow

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Bedford West Junction

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Bedford St Johns [1st]

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Bedford and Cambridge Railway

Bedford St Johns

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Remains of the old station at Bedford St Johns on the Oxford - Cambridge line, seen around 1976 looking east towards Sandy. The station was closed in ...
Ian Dinmore //1976

A DMU stands under the remains of the overall roof at the old Bedford St Johns station on the former Oxford - Cambridge line in 1976. View is west ...
Ian Dinmore //1976

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Bedford Railway

Locations along the line

Bletchley

Fenny Stratford

Bow Brickhill

Woburn Sands

Aspley Guise

Ridgmont

Lidlington

Millbrook (Bedfordshire)

Stewartby

Wootton Broadmead

Kempston Hardwick

Kempston and Elstow

Bedford West Junction

Bedford St Johns [1st]

Bedford St Johns

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