Trains to Biggleswade - Station Details and further Information on Biggleswade Train Services
Biggleswade train station serves the town of Biggleswade in Bedfordshire, England. The station is 41 miles north of London Kings Cross on the "London-Peterborough Line". Biggleswade is managed and served by First Capital Connect.
Biggleswade train station was originally built in 1850 for the Great Northern railway. The original station consisted of two lines but was rebuilt in 1901 to allow the present 4 line arrangement to be built.
Biggleswade has two large platforms and 4 main rail lines, a pair of "up and down" slow lines used by stopping services and a pair of "up and down" fast lines used by high speed services passing through. A fifth line extends off the "up" slow line which links into the remaining sidings used by Plasmor.
Biggleswade train station was once a busy goods yard with several sidings used for loading trains of market produce to be taken to London markets. The decline of this lead to a reduction in the use of the station, and it now used for passenger traffic. Plasmor bricks own the site where the former goods depot was sited, and these lines into the sidings are still active with train workings of breeze block bricks brought down from Heck to Biggleswade, where they are then unloaded onto lorries for distribution. The goods depot was demolished but the old weighbridge & office remain on site, although out of use. Biggleswade also had a signal box but this was closed when semophore signals were replaced.
Biggleswade train station has a small cafe in the old station buildings and a ticket office. It was also a red star police office but this was closed in the mid 1980s when parcel traffic was forced to use Stevenage station.
There is a half-hourly service southbound to London Kings Cross and northbound to Peterborough with an hourly service in each direction on Sundays. |
