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Bow Brickhill[REDACTED]
General information
Location	Bow Brickhill, City of Milton Keynes England
Coordinates	52°00′14″N 0°41′46″W / 52.004°N 0.696°W / 52.004; -0.696
Grid reference	SP895347
Managed by	London Northwestern Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	BWB
Classification	DfT category F2
Key dates
30 November 1905	Opened
1 January 1917	closed
1 May 1919	opened
Passengers
2019/20	41,340
2020/21	12,178
2021/22	17,046
2022/23	18,532
2023/24	13,274
Location
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Bow Brickhill railway station is a railway station that serves the civil parishes of Bow Brickhill and Walton in the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. It is on the Bletchley — Bedford Marston Vale line, about 2 miles (3.25 km) east of Bletchley.

The station is served by London Northwestern Railway local services from Bletchley to Bedford. Services are operated using Class 150 multiple units. This station is one of the seven stations serving the Milton Keynes urban area.

History

The London and North Western Railway opened Bow Brickhill station in 1905, significantly later than many other stations on the branch. It was one of seven halts built for the introduction of a steam rail motor service over the line. It closed temporarily during the first World War as an economy measure, from Jan 1917 to May 1919. Bow Brickhill lost its staffing and gated level crossing to modernisation in the 1980s, and since then the station has been unmanned except for two security cameras operated from other stations.

Until 2004 Bow Brickhill was unique on the line for having staggered platforms. The purpose of this is so that road traffic on the level crossing is not held up by trains standing still in the platform. However recently a number of other stations on the line including Aspley Guise have been rebuilt to have their platforms staggered also as part of the Bedford-Bletchley route modernisation.

Another oddity about Bow Brickill is that the road crossing here, the V10 Brickhill Street, has a roundabout immediately on either side of the crossing. This causes traffic jams whenever the crossing barriers are down, as each roundabout clogs with the traffic queue and remains so for up to ten minutes. Milton Keynes Council has a long-term plan for the level crossing to be replaced with a bridge, but the Transport and Works Act Order for East West Rail exempts Network Rail from any obligation to provide such a bridge as part of its works on revitalising this line.

Services

All services at Bow Brickhill are operated by London Northwestern Railway.

The typical off-peak service is one train per hour in each direction between Bletchley and Bedford which runs on weekdays and Saturdays only using Class 150 DMUs. There is no Sunday service.

Community Rail Partnership

Bow Brickhill station, in common with others on the Marston Vale Line, is covered by the Marston Vale Community Rail Partnership, which aims to increase use of the line by involving local people.

Location

The station is on Brickhill Street (V10) near its junction with Station Road, about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) west of Bow Brickhill. The nearest post-code is MK17 9FH. In the chainage notation traditionally used on the railway, it is 2 miles 1 chain (2.01 mi; 3.24 km) from Bletchley station on the line to Bedford.

v t e Stations in and around Milton Keynes
Legend
West Coast Main Line towards Glasgow Central Northampton loop to Northampton Roade Bedford–Northampton line towards Northampton Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway Salcey Forest Hanslope Junction Castlethorpe Olney Wolverton and Stony Stratford Tramway towards Bedford Deanshanger Old Stratford Wolverton–Newport Pagnell line Stony Stratford Newport Pagnell Wolverton Works Great Linford Wolverton Bradwell East West Rail / Marston Vale line to Bedford Woburn Sands Milton Keynes Central Bow Brickhill Denbigh Hall Fenny Stratford Bletchley TMD Bletchley former Varsity Line / planned East West Rail to Oxford Bletchley Flyover Leighton Buzzard West Coast Main Line towards Euston

References

1. ^ "Disused Stations - Bow Brickhill"Disused Stations Site Record; Retrieved 7 September 2016
2. Martin Whitehead (1 October 2019). NETWORK RAIL (EAST WEST RAIL BICESTER TO BEDFORD IMPROVEMENTS) ORDER 201[ ]; APPLICATION FOR DEEMED PLANNING PERMISSION; APPLICATIONS FOR LISTED BUILDING CONSENT (PDF) (Report). Department for Transport (published 5 February 2020). Retrieved 19 February 2020. (Inspector's report)
3. Table 64 National Rail timetable, December 2022
4. Marston Vale Community Rail Partnership
5. Streetmap.co.uk
6. Engineer's Line References: Bletchley south junction to Bedford RailwayCodes.org

Notes

1. The others are Wolverton, Milton Keynes Central, Bletchley, Fenny Stratford, Woburn Sands and Aspley Guise

External links

• Train times and station information for Bow Brickhill railway station from National Rail

v t e Transport in Milton Keynes
Road	Milton Keynes grid road system A421 A422 A4146 A5 A509 Watling Street (Roman road, "Old A5")
Rail	Bletchley Flyover Bletchley railway station Bletchley TMD Bow Brickhill railway station East West Rail Fenny Stratford railway station Marston Vale line Milton Keynes Central railway station Varsity Line West Coast Main Line Woburn Sands railway station Wolverton railway station Wolverton–Newport Pagnell line Wolverton and Stony Stratford Tramway
Bus	Buses in Milton Keynes Arriva Shires & Essex Milton Keynes Coachway MK Metro Stagecoach Midlands United Counties Omnibus
Water	Bedford & Milton Keynes Waterway (proposed) Cosgrove aqueduct Grand Union Canal
Other transport	Milton Keynes redway system (shared path network)

• Railway stations in Buckinghamshire
• DfT Category F2 stations
• Railway stations in Milton Keynes
• Former London and North Western Railway stations
• Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1905
• Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1917
• Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1919
• Railway stations served by West Midlands Trains
• 1905 establishments in England
• East West Rail