Royston railway station

Not to be confused with Ryston railway station.

Royston
The two platforms
Location
Place	Royston
Local authority	District of North Hertfordshire
Grid reference	TL353412
Operations
Station code	RYS
Managed by	Great Northern
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	D
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	1.027 million
2005/06	1.061 million
2006/07	1.079 million
2007/08	1.148 million
2008/09	1.155 million
2009/10	1.113 million
2010/11	1.194 million
2011/12	1.218 million
2012/13	1.229 million
2013/14	1.301 million
2014/15	1.394 million
National Rail – UK railway stations

* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Royston from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal

Royston railway station serves the town of Royston in Hertfordshire, England. The station is 44.9 mi (72.3 km) north east of London Kings Cross and 13.03 mi (20.97 km) south west of Cambridge on the Cambridge Line. Trains serving the station are operated by Great Northern.

The station is an important stop on the commuter line between King's Cross and Cambridge as the majority of semi-fast services between London and Cambridge stop at Royston - one exception being the 'Cambridge Cruiser' fast services from London. It is also the last station before Cambridge with platforms capable of handling 8-car or 12-car trains. Therefore, it is used by many commuters, not only from Royston but also from smaller stations north of Royston who transfer from stopping services to faster trains at the station.

Electrification

The railway from London King's Cross to Royston was electrified in 1978. Class 312 electric trains from King's Cross terminated at Royston; passengers wishing to travel to Cambridge had to change to a connecting diesel multiple unit train. From 1988 the whole line from London to Cambridge was electrified, ending the need to change trains at Royston. Full services commenced on 2 May 1988.^[1] Network SouthEast commissioned the electrification from Royston to Cambridge.

Infrastructure

Both Up and Down lines through Royston station are signalled bi-directionally,^[2] meaning that Royston is the only place on the Cambridge Line where a train can overtake one ahead of it. The Signalling is controlled by Kings Cross Power Signal Box.^[2]

The station is located on a long sweeping curve, reducing the line speed^[3] in the Up direction to 50 mph,^[2] and a differential speed of 50/65 mph^[2] in the Down direction.

Services

Great Northern serves Royston on services up to London King's Cross and down to Cambridge. Trains are usually formed of Class 317, Class 321 or Class 365 electric multiple units.

Trains to London King's Cross are either slow or semi-fast, departing at approximately half-hour intervals. Slow services call at all major stations to King's Cross (not inner suburban-only stations), taking 62 minutes to arrive in London at an average of 43.5 mph (70.0 km/h)^[4] Semi-fast services call at Baldock, Letchworth, Hitchin, Stevenage and Finsbury Park. During early morning peak-time there are some fast services running non-stop or stopping only at Letchworth, reaching London in under 40 minutes.

Two trains per hour also operate towards Cambridge.^[4] Slow trains call at all stations and take 26 minutes to arrive at Cambridge, operating at an average of 30.1 mph (48.4 km/h).^[4] Fast trains run non-stop to Cambridge, taking 17 minutes at an average of 46.0 mph (74.0 km/h).^[4] Some Cambridge-bound services continue to Ely and King's Lynn.

From the completion of the Thameslink Programme in 2018 it is proposed that there will be a 2tph to Maidstone East service.^[5]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Baldock		Great Northern Great Northern semi-fast		Cambridge
Ashwell and Morden		Great Northern Great Northern stopping		Meldreth

Trivia

Royston and Ashwell & Morden railway stations are available for SimSig,^[6] a signalling simulation game.

Royston station is mentioned in the novel About a Boy by Nick Hornby.

The train at the end of Jim Diamond's 1984 music video for I Should Have Known Better was heading to Royston from Finsbury Park.

References

↑ "NSE Chronology January 1988 to December 1988". Network SouthEast Railway Society. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
1 2 3 4 "NR London North Eastern Sectional Appendix / LN125 Seq 001-005" (PDF). Network Rail. June 2015. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
↑ Network Rail Line Speed article Retrieved 2015-06-28
1 2 3 4 Great Northern route timetable First Capital Connect Retrieved 2009-06-01
↑ http://www.networkrail.co.uk/browse%20documents/rus%20documents/route%20utilisation%20strategies/kent/kent%20rus%20draft.pdf
↑ Simsig Website Retrieved 2015-07-01

External links

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

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 Hertfordshire

Abbey Line:

East Coast Main Line:

(from Edinburgh Waverley)
Hitchin
Stevenage
Knebworth
Welwyn North
Welwyn Garden City
Hatfield
Welham Green
Brookmans Park
Potters Bar
(to London King's Cross)

Hertford East Branch Line:

Hertford Loop Line:

Cambridge Line:

(from Cambridge)
Royston
(Ashwell and Morden)
Baldock
Letchworth Garden City
Hitchin

Lea Valley Lines:

Cheshunt via Southbury	(from London Liverpool Street) Theobalds Grove Cheshunt

Hertford East via Tottenham Hale	(from London Liverpool Street) Waltham Cross Cheshunt Broxbourne Rye House St Margarets Ware Hertford East

London to Aylesbury Line:

(from London Marylebone)
Moor Park
Rickmansworth
Chorleywood
(to Aylesbury Vale Parkway)

Thameslink:

(from Bedford)
Harpenden
St Albans City
Radlett
Elstree & Borehamwood
(to Brighton)

Watford DC Line:

West Anglia Main Line:

(from Cambridge)
Bishop's Stortford
Sawbridgeworth
(Harlow Mill
Harlow Town
Roydon)
Broxbourne
Cheshunt
(to London Liverpool Street)

West Coast Main Line :

(from London Euston)
Bushey
Watford Junction
Apsley
Kings Langley
Hemel Hempstead
Berkhamsted
Tring
(to Glasgow Central)

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.

Coordinates: 52°03′11″N 0°01′37″W / 52.053°N 0.027°W / 52.053; -0.027

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