Ridgmont railway station

Infobox UK station
name = Ridgmont


manager = London Midland
locale = Ridgmont
borough = Mid Bedfordshire
platforms = 2
lowusage0203 = 24,297
lowusage0405 = 28,021
lowusage0506 = 26,503
lowusage0607 = 29,064
years =
events =

Ridgmont railway station is a small (unstaffed) railway station that serves the villages of Ridgmont in Bedfordshire (about 2km (1.25 miles) away on the other side of the M1 Motorway at Junction 13) and Brogborough. It also serves the large Amazon.com warehouse next door.

It is located on the Bletchley-Bedford Marston Vale line.

The station is served by London Midland local services from Bletchley to Bedford. Services are operated using Class 150/1 diesel multiple units.

General information

Ridgmont is located within visual range of Junction 13 of the M1 and the station is overshadowed by a number of distribution centres.

It was at Ridgmont that a new Marston Vale signalling control centre was built as part of the Bedford-Bletchley route modernisation in 2004. This centre replaced all of the signal boxes on the route.

It was planned in the 1860s to extend the railway between Wolverton and Newport Pagnell to meet with the Marston Vale line at Ridgmont, however this extension was never built.

Services

Community Rail Partnership

Ridgmont, in common with other stations on the Marston Vale line, is covered by the [http://www.marstonvalecommuityrail.org.uk Marston Vale Community Rail Partnership] . The Partnership aims to increase use of the line by getting local people involved with their local line.

External links

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