Meldreth railway station
Meldreth  | |||||
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| General information | |||||
| Location | Meldreth, South Cambridgeshire England | ||||
| Coordinates | 52°05′27″N 0°00′32″E / 52.0907°N 0.0089°E | ||||
| Grid reference | TL377455 | ||||
| Managed by | Great Northern | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
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| Station code | MEL | ||||
| Classification | DfT category E | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 1 August 1851 | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2019/20 |  0.306 million | ||||
| 2020/21 |  82,016 | ||||
| 2021/22 | 0.181 million | ||||
| 2022/23 | 0.217 million | ||||
| 2023/24 | 0.230 million | ||||
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Meldreth railway station serves the villages of Meldreth and Melbourn in Cambridgeshire, England. It is 47 miles 75 chains (47.94 miles, 77.15 km) from London King's Cross on the Cambridge Line.[1]
Services
[edit]All services at Meldreth are operated by Great Northern using Class 387 EMUs.
The typical off-peak service is one train per hour in each direction between Cambridge and London King's Cross. Additional services call at the station during the peak hours.[2]
| Preceding station |  National Rail
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Following station | ||
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| Great Northern | ||||
History
[edit]On 1 August 2001 local celebrations marked the 150th anniversary of the station's opening in 1851, during the so-called Victorian Railway Mania.
References
[edit]- ^ Padgett, David (October 2016) [1988]. Brailsford, Martyn (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams 2: Eastern (4th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. map 24C. ISBN 978-0-9549866-8-1.
- ^ Table 25 National Rail timetable, June 2024
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Meldreth railway station.
- Train times and station information for Meldreth railway station from National Rail
- Meldreth Railway Station at Meldreth Local History Group