Bletchley Railway Station (Bletchley)

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Bletchley railway station serves the southern part of Milton Keynes, especially the Bletchley area West Coast Main Line with the Bletchley-Bedford Marston Vale Line. It has 6 platforms but the central platforms are rarely used being located on the fast lines for Virgin trains.

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletchley_railway_station
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Coordinates:   51°59'45"N   -0°44'11"E

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  • The London and Birmingham Railway, now the "West Coast Main Line", was officially opened from Euston to Denbigh Hall, approximately one mile north of Bletchley station, on April 9, 1838, where a temporary station was built. The line was fully opened in September 1838, and there seemed no apparent needfast lines for a station in the Bletchley area at all. It was not until 1847 that Bletchley station was built following the opening of the line from Bedford. Originally a major intercity station, that role passed to Milton Keynes Central in 1982 when the latter was built, long after the east/west route had been downgraded, taking Bletchley's importance as a junction with it. Today, no inter-city services stop at Bletchley. The eastbound route (to Bedford) opened in 1846[1], when the first station at Bletchley was built. The westbound route (to Buckingham) opened in 1850. This east/west route subsequently became the Oxford to Cambridge "Varsity Line".
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