Brookmans Park railway station
Brookmans Park railway station serves the village of Brookmans Park in Hertfordshire, England. The station is located 14 miles 37 chains (23.3 km) north of London Kings Cross on the East Coast Main Line, on the stretch between Finsbury Park and Hatfield.[2][3]
Brookmans Park  | |
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 The station's 4 platforms | |
  Brookmans Park Location of Brookmans Park in Hertfordshire | |
| Location | Brookmans Park |
| Local authority | Borough of Welwyn Hatfield |
| Grid reference | TL241040 |
| Managed by | Great Northern |
| Station code | BPK |
| DfT category | E |
| Number of platforms | 4 |
| National Rail annual entry and exit | |
| 2015–16 |  0.241 million[1] |
| 2016–17 | 0.244 million[1] |
| 2017–18 |  0.234 million[1] |
| 2018–19 | 0.233 million[1] |
| 2019–20 | 0.230 million[1] |
| Railway companies | |
| Original company | London and North Eastern Railway |
| Post-grouping | London and North Eastern Railway |
| Key dates | |
| 19 July 1926 | Station opened |
| Other information | |
| External links | |
| WGS84 | 51.721°N 0.205°W |
 London transport portal | |
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History
The station was opened by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) on 19 July 1926.[4]
On 21 May 1942, during WW2 Anthony Eden met Russian Peoples' Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov, along with his staff on Brookmans Park railway station platform, bought by a sleeper train pulled by Class A4 locomotive Number 4495 'Golden Fleece' so they could be driven to Chequers to meet Winston Churchill to sign the Anglo-Soviet Treaty.[5]
Facilities
In Autumn 2008, a Shere self-service ticket machine was installed opposite the booking office window, replacing an earlier Avantix self-service machine.
Uniquely, contactless payment cards can be used to touch in and out to pay fares for travel to and from Brookmans Park, but Oyster cards cannot.
Station layout
The station has four platforms in total, two island platforms on both sides, but only platforms 1 & 4 are used regularly, platforms 2 & 3 are only used during line disruption or engineering work. The west side serves northbound services and another island platform serving southbound services which lies to the east. The station car park parallels the island platforms to the east.
The platforms are reached by a steep footbridge, the station building (an LNER survivor) being a part-time booking office at the NW extremity of the station.[6]
Ticket office opening times and station staffing hours
Below are the current opening and staffing times for Brookmans Park, as of 2010.[7]
| Ticket Office Hours | ||
|---|---|---|
| Day | Opens | Closes |
| Monday to Friday | 06:50 | 10:00 |
| Saturday | - | - |
| Sunday | - | - |
| Station Staffing Hours | ||
|---|---|---|
| Day | From | Until |
| Monday to Friday | 06:35 | 10:15 |
| Saturday | - | - |
| Sunday | - | - |
Services
There is a basic weekday off-peak service of 3tph in both directions, southbound to Moorgate and northbound to Welwyn Garden City. This drops to every half-hour at weekends. Late evening & weekend services used to run to and from Kings Cross rather than using the Northern City Line, but from 13 December 2015 Great Northern introduced a weekend service on the line and extended evening hours until the end of service.[8][9]
References
- "Station usage estimates". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.
- Yonge, John (September 2006) [1994]. Jacobs, Gerald (ed.). 2: Eastern. Railway Track Diagrams (3rd ed.). Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps. map 15A. ISBN 0-9549866-2-8.
- Baker, S.K. (April 2007) [1977]. Rail Atlas Great Britain & Ireland (11th ed.). Hersham: Oxford Publishing Co. p. 24, section A2. ISBN 978-0-86093-602-2. 0704/K.
- Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 46. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.
- Allen, Mike. "Top secret WWII Russian visit to Brookmans Park 1942". North Mymms History.uk. North Mymms History Project. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
- "Brookmans Park Station Plan". National Rail. Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 12 February 2011.
- "Brookmans Park". First Capital Connect. Archived from the original on 31 December 2008. Retrieved 11 June 2010.
- GB eNRT December 2015 Edition, Table 24
- "Seven-day-a-week service to the City better for late-returning commuters and weekend shoppers" Great Northern website article 5 November 2015; Retrieved 2 February 2016
External links
- Train times and station information for Brookmans Park railway station from National Rail