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Baldock railway station

Coordinates: 51°59′35″N 0°11′17″W / 51.993°N 0.188°W / 51.993; -0.188
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Baldock
National Rail
From the road
General information
LocationBaldock, District of North Hertfordshire
England
Grid referenceTL245342
Managed byGreat Northern
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeBDK
ClassificationDfT category E
History
Opened21 October 1850
Passengers
2018/19Decrease 0.638 million
2019/20Increase 0.654 million
2020/21Decrease 0.154 million
2021/22Increase 0.387 million
2022/23Increase 0.503 million
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road
The station in 1961

Baldock railway station serves the historic market town of Baldock in Hertfordshire, England. It is on the Cambridge Line, 36 miles 47 chains (58.9 km) north of London King's Cross,[1] and is located on the outskirts of Baldock on Station Road.

History

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Opened by the Royston and Hitchin Railway, then run by the Great Northern Railway, it became part of 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.

The station is part of the Thameslink Programme which connects Cambridge to Farringdon, City Thameslink and Blackfriars station via the Great Northern Route. This project went live in 2018.

Services

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Services at Baldock are operated by Thameslink and Great Northern using Class 387 and 700 EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[2]

During the peak hours, the service to London King's Cross and the all stations service to Cambridge are increased to 2 tph.

On Sundays, the service between Brighton and Cambridge is reduced to hourly.

Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
Thameslink
  Great Northern
  Ashwell & Morden
or
Royston

References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Table 25, 52 National Rail timetable, May 2023
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