Baldock railway station
Baldock railway station serves the 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.
Baldock  | |
|---|---|
 From the road | |
| Location | Baldock, District of North Hertfordshire England |
| Grid reference | TL245342 |
| Managed by | Great Northern |
| Platforms | 2 |
| Other information | |
| Station code | BDK |
| Classification | DfT category E |
| History | |
| Opened | 21 October 1850 |
| Passengers | |
| 2015/16 |  0.658 million |
| 2016/17 |  0.649 million |
| 2017/18 | 0.653 million |
| 2018/19 | 0.638 million |
| 2019/20 | 0.654 million |
| Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road | |
History
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
Off-peak, all services at Baldock are operated by Thameslink using Class 700 EMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[2]
- 2 tph to London King's Cross (all stations to Potters Bar, then semi-fast)
- 2 tph to Brighton via Gatwick Airport (semi-fast)
- 4 tph to Cambridge (2 of these call at all stations and 2 are semi-fast)
There are also additional services to London King's Cross during the peak hours which start and terminate at Baldock. These services are operated by Great Northern using Class 365 and Class 387 EMUs.
| Preceding station | National Rail |
Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thameslink | ||||
| Great Northern | Terminus | |||
References
- 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.
- "Timetable 13: Cambridge, Royston and Letchworth to London" (PDF). Govia Thameslink Railway, December 2019.
- Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
- Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
- Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
- Station on navigable O.S. map