Ashwell and Morden railway station

Ashwell and Morden
Location
Place	Odsey
Local authority	South Cambridgeshire
Coordinates	52°01′52″N 0°06′36″W / 52.031°N 0.110°WCoordinates: 52°01′52″N 0°06′36″W / 52.031°N 0.110°W
Grid reference	TL298386
Operations
Station code	AWM
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*
2004/05	98,481
2005/06	96,452
2006/07	0.108 million
2007/08	0.104 million
2008/09	0.117 million
2009/10	0.112 million
2010/11	0.116 million
2011/12	0.130 million
2012/13	0.119 million
2013/14	0.131 million
2014/15	0.139 million
History
Original company	Royston and Hitchin Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Northern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
21 October 1850	Opened as Ashwell
1 April 1920	Renamed Ashwell and Morden
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Ashwell and Morden from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Ashwell and Morden railway station is a wayside railway station in Cambridgeshire, England.

Close to the border with Hertfordshire, it is in the hamlet of Odsey, slightly north of the Icknield Way, a Roman Road that is now the A505. The station is served by trains between Cambridge and London King's Cross. The villages it serves, as well as Odsey, are Ashwell, Guilden Morden and Steeple Morden, although it is located a couple of miles from each of them and linked to them only by minor roads.

History

Opened as Ashwell station by the Royston and Hitchin Railway (R&HR) on 21 October 1850,^[1] the R&HR was later absorbed by the Great Northern Railway (GNR). The name was changed to Ashwell and Morden on 1 April 1920^[1] three years before the GNR amalgamated with several other railways to form the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Network SouthEast until the Privatisation of British Railways.

Services

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Royston		Great Northern Great Northern stopping		Baldock

References

1. Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 20. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.

• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687.

External links

• Train times and station information for Ashwell and Morden railway station from National Rail