Arlesey railway station

Arlesey
The small station building
Location
Place	Arlesey
Local authority	District of Central Bedfordshire
Grid reference	TL190378
Operations
Station code	ARL
Managed by	Great Northern
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	E
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2010/11	0.445 million
2011/12	0.503 million
2012/13	0.535 million
2013/14	0.563 million
2014/15	0.627 million
History
7 August 1850	Station opens as Arlsey and Shefford Road
March 1860	Station renamed Arlesey and Shefford Road
July 1893	Station renamed Arlesey
July 1895	Station renamed Arlesey and Shefford Road
1 March 1933	Station renamed Arlesey and Henlow
5 January 1959	Station closes
3 October 1988	Rebuilt station opens
National Rail – UK railway stations

* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Arlesey from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Arlesey railway station serves the town of Arlesey in Bedfordshire, England. The station is 37 miles (60 km) north of London Kings Cross on the East Coast Main Line. Arlesey is managed and served by Great Northern.

Arlesey is the nearest station to the towns of Stotfold and Shefford and to the villages of Langford, Clifton and Henlow.

History

Original station

The first section of the Great Northern Railway (GNR) (from Louth to a junction with the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway at Grimsby) opened on 1 March 1848; but the southern section of the main line (from Maiden Lane to Peterborough) was not opened until 7 August 1850. One of the 1850 stations was Arlsey and Shefford Road.^[1]^[2]^[3] It was renamed Arlesey and Shefford Road in March 1860, but the shorter name of Arlesey was used between July 1893 and July 1895.^[3]

The GNR became part of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) during the grouping of 1923. On 1 March 1933 the LNER renamed the station Arlesey and Henlow.^[3] The station passed to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

The station and the adjacent Three Counties railway station were closed to passengers on 5 January 1959^[3] and to goods on 28 November 1960, and demolished soon after due to declining receipts.^[3]^[4]

Present station

The line, however, remained open; and the present station built by Network SouthEast opened on 3 October 1988 on the site of the original station in the Church End area of Arlesey. The rebuilt station was designed to be fully accessible to wheelchairs but was initially unusable by those who couldn't leave their chair as there were no facilities for 'loading and unloading'. First Capital Connect provided the station with ramps in 2006, and users now simply have to ring 24 hours in advance for assistance.

In 2006 Her Majesty The Queen visited the station.

The station's platforms are currently being lengthened to accommodate 12 car trains scheduled to serve the station upon completion of the Thameslink Programme.^[5]

Platform view 1991

Facilities

The station is fully accessible to wheelchair users, and FCC installed modern LED lights on both platforms in 2009.^[6]

The station now has two small shelters on both platforms. The station is currently (as of 2010) served by a small portable cafe in the mornings.

There is a ticket office on the southbound platform with a Permit to Travel Machine and a modern Touch Screen ticket machine located in front of the booking office. Cycle storage is provided on both sides of the station; although only the southbound side has secure storage. First Capital Connect installed a help point on Platform 1. Arlesey station does not currently have automatic ticket gates.

Services

Arlesey station is served by a half-hourly service southbound to London Kings Cross and northbound to Peterborough. There is an hourly service in each direction on Sundays.

Timetables for Arlesey can be seen and downloaded here.

Legend

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Ticket Office Opening Times & Station Staffing Hours

Below are the current opening and staffing times for Arlesey, as of 2010.^[7]

Ticket Office Hours
Day	Opens	Closes
Monday to Friday	06:45	12:10
Saturday	07:45	13:10
Sunday	-	-

Station Staffing Hours
Day	From	Until
Monday to Friday	06:30	12:30
Saturday	07:30	13:30
Sunday	-	-

Route

Preceding station		Following station
Hitchin	Great Northern Great Northern Peterborough Line	Biggleswade
Historical railways
Three Counties Line open; Station closed	Great Northern Railway East Coast Main Line	Biggleswade Line and station open

Notes

↑ Gordon 1989, volume II, p. 44
↑ Awdry 1990, p. 135
1 2 3 4 5 Butt 1995, p. 18
↑ source: Bedfordshire Libraries
↑ http://www.firstcapitalconnect.co.uk/about-us/major-programmes-and-developments/more-seats-for-you/the-future/
↑ http://www.firstcapitalconnect.co.uk/Main.php?sEvent=News&sFileName=News.php&iId=180
↑ http://www.firstcapitalconnect.co.uk/Main.php?sEvent=StationInfo&crs_code=ARL

References

Awdry, Christopher (1990). Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies. London: Guild Publishing. CN 8983.
Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
Gordon, W.J. (1989) [1910]. Our Home Railways. London: Bracken Books. ISBN 1-85170-314-4.
Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Arlesey railway station.

Station on navigable O.S. map

Train times and station information for Arlesey railway station from National Rail

Coordinates: 52°01′34″N 0°15′58″W / 52.026°N 0.266°W / 52.026; -0.266

Great Northern Route

GN core route stations	King's Cross Finsbury Park Harringay Hornsey Alexandra Palace New Southgate Oakleigh Park New Barnet Hadley Wood Potters Bar Brookmans Park Welham Green Hatfield Welwyn Garden City Welwyn North Knebworth Stevenage Hitchin

Northern City Line	Moorgate Old Street Essex Road Highbury & Islington Drayton Park

Hertford Loop Line	Bowes Park Palmers Green Winchmore Hill Grange Park Enfield Chase Gordon Hill Crews Hill, Cuffley Bayford Hertford North Watton-at-Stone

Peterborough Line	Arlesey Biggleswade Sandy St Neots Huntingdon Peterborough

Hitchin-Cambridge Line	Letchworth Garden City Baldock Ashwell & Morden Royston Meldreth Shepreth Foxton Cambridge

Train operating company	Great Northern (part of Govia Thameslink Railway)

Former operators	West Anglia Great Northern (WAGN) First Capital Connect

Closed line	Varsity Line

Closed stations	Abbots Ripton Denver Enfield Harston Hilgay Holloway and Caledonian Road Holme (Cambridgeshire) Holme (Norfolk) Maiden Lane Offord and Buckden Ouse Bridge Stapleford Stow Bardolph Tempsford Three Counties Yaxley and Farcet

Future stations and infrastructure	Cambridge Science Park Hitchin flyover

Railway stations in Bedfordshire

West Coast Main Line	Leighton Buzzard

Midland Main Line	Bedford Flitwick Harlington Leagrave Luton Luton Airport Parkway

East Coast Main Line	Arlesey Biggleswade Sandy

Marston Vale Line	Aspley Guise Bedford Bedford St Johns Kempston Hardwick Lidlington Millbrook Ridgmont Stewartby

Thameslink, Great Northern, Southern and Southeastern routes

Thameslink and Great Northern routes serving this station

Great Northern Peterborough & Cambridge	London King's Cross Finsbury Park Potters Bar Hatfield Welwyn Garden City Welwyn North Knebworth Stevenage Hitchin Arlesey Biggleswade Sandy St. Neots Huntingdon Peterborough Letchworth Garden City Baldock Ashwell & Morden Royston Meldreth Shepreth Foxton Cambridge

Stations in italics are served on limited occasions, at peak hours or on Sundays only.

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