Leighton Buzzard railway station

Leighton Buzzard railway station

Infobox UK station
name = Leighton Buzzard
code = LBZ


manager = London Midland
locale = Linslade
borough = South Bedfordshire
usage0405 = 1.200
usage0506 = 1.279
usage0607 = 1.385
platforms = 4
start =

Leighton Buzzard railway station (actually in Linslade) is a railway station that serves the Leighton Buzzard and Linslade area of Bedfordshire and nearby parts of Buckinghamshire. The station is 64 km (40¾ miles) north west of London Euston and is served by London Midland local services from Northampton to London on the West Coast Main Line.

The Great Train Robbery of 1963 occurred just south of this station, at oscoor|SP914221|Bridego Bridge near Ledburn, at a bridge on the southbound stretch towards Cheddington.

Page's Park railway station, terminus for the Leighton Buzzard Railway (a narrow gauge heritage railway) is on the opposite side of the town.

Until the 1960s the station was the start of a branch to Dunstable and Luton, with a junction just south of the present station. There have been past proposals about reopening this route, as little of it has been lost to new construction, either for rail or as a guided busway.

Just to the north of the station are the Linslade tunnels. These are arranged unusually for a four track main line: the southbound slow line has a tunnel to itself as does the northbound fast line, however the northbound slow and southbound fast lines share a tunnel. This stems from the fact that the line was built as double-track and when quadrupled, the two extra lines could only be placed along both sides, as single-track tunnels.

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