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Milton Keynes Central railway station serves Milton Keynes and surrounding parts of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire (England). The station is located on the West Coast Main Line about 50 miles (80 km) northwest of London.
The northern WCML as it weaves through the Lune Gorge in Cumbria alongside the M6. The spine between London Euston and Glasgow Central is 399 miles (642 km) long, [1] with principal InterCity stations at Watford Junction, Milton Keynes Central, Rugby, Stafford, Crewe, Warrington Bank Quay, Wigan North Western, Preston, Lancaster, Oxenholme Lake District, Penrith and Carlisle.
In June 2005, the then franchisee, Silverlink Trains announced an intention to extend the Marston Vale service via the West Coast Main Line to Milton Keynes Central, where a new platform and track would be built alongside the up slow track. Work began on 4 December 2006 at the station to prepare for a service connection.
In 2009, Southern introduced its cross-London service from Milton Keynes to East Croydon. [17] For a brief period, Southern and Connex also operated a direct service from Rugby to Brighton via Gatwick Airport , but this was withdrawn in 2001.
Actually situated in Linslade, the station is 40 miles (64 km) north west of London Euston and is served by London Northwestern Railway services on the West Coast Main Line. Until the 1960s the station was the start of a branch to Dunstable and Luton, with a junction just north of the present station. The station has four platforms.
It is the terminus of many slower trains out of Euston and platform 4 provides a turnaround for these trains. All services at Tring are operated by London Northwestern Railway. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: [7] 4 tph to London Euston (2 semi-fast, 2 stopping) 2 tph to Milton Keynes Central
Generally, fast express trains run via the direct line, while freight and slower passenger services run via the loop line. The southern interconnect between the Northampton loop and the direct London–Birmingham main line is at Hanslope Junction, just north of Milton Keynes.
London Midland Class 350 at Atherstone with a 12:28 service to London Euston. West Midlands Trains operating under the London Northwestern Railway branding, provide an hourly service in each direction (including Sundays); southbound to London Euston via Nuneaton, Rugby and Milton Keynes Central, and northbound to Crewe via Stafford. [6]
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