St. Neots railway station

St Neots railway station serves the town of St Neots in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located to the east of the town approximately 1.5 miles from the town centre. It is on the East Coast Main Line, about 52 miles (83 km) from London King's Cross. The station is managed and served by Great Northern.

St Neots
The entrance to the station
LocationSt Neots, District of Huntingdonshire
England
Grid referenceTL197607
Managed byGreat Northern
Platforms4
Other information
Station codeSNO
ClassificationDfT category D
History
Opened7 August 1850
Original companyGreat Northern Railway
Pre-groupingGreat Northern Railway
Post-groupingLondon and North Eastern Railway
Eastern Region of British Railways
Passengers
2015/16 1.341 million
2016/17 1.351 million
2017/18 1.338 million
2018/19 1.326 million
2019/20 1.262 million
Location
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

The station has two large island platforms and four 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 fast Great Northern services that stop there during peak times and for high speed services passing through.

History

The first section of the Great Northern Railway (GNR) - that from Louth to a junction with the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway at Grimsby - opened on 1 March 1848, but the southern section of the main line, between Maiden Lane and Peterborough, was not opened until August 1850. St Neots was one of the original stations, opening with the line on 7 August 1850.[1][2][3]

It was the scene of a derailment of a Scottish night express in 1895.[4]

Facilities
Platforms 1 and 2, with the stations buildings & Ticket Office in the background.

There are toilet facilities at the station and a newsagent/coffee seller in the ticket hall. A taxi office is situated outside the station, where minicabs can be booked.

St Neots station has automatic ticket barriers, which were installed in 2008 by former franchise holder First Capital Connect, which has led to the station being staffed for longer hours, and the station also has help points throughout.

Services

St Neots station is served by a half-hourly Thameslink service southbound to Horsham via London St Pancras and northbound to Peterborough. There is an hourly service in each direction on Sundays.[5]

There are extra services run by Great Northern at peak times on Mondays to Fridays to London King's Cross in the morning peak and from King's Cross to Peterborough in the evening peak.

The station is also served by several buses, with routes to St Neots town centre, Eaton Ford, Eaton Socon, Loves Farm, Cambridge, and Eynesbury.[6]

Recent developments

A new footbridge opened in February 2014, providing lifts to the platforms and access to the station from both sides of the track including access to the Love's Farm housing development.[7]

Route
Preceding station National Rail Following station
Great Northern
London Kings Cross–Peterborough
Peak times only
Thameslink
Horsham–Peterborough
Historical railways
Line open, station closed
Great Northern Railway
Line open, station closed

Location
St Neots station (in Cambridgeshire)

In the chainage notation traditionally used on the railways, the station is 51 miles 58 chains (83.24 km; 51.73 mi) from London King's Cross.[8]

References
  1. Gordon, W.J. (1989) [1910]. Our Home Railways. London: Bracken Books. volume II, p. 44. ISBN 1-85170-314-4.
  2. Awdry, Christopher (1990). Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies. London: Guild Publishing. p. 135. CN 8983.
  3. Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 204. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.
  4. "Accident at St Neots on 10th November 1895". Railways Archive. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  5. Table 25 National Rail timetable, May 2018
  6. Cambridgeshire County Council. "Bus Timetables". Archived from the original on 12 November 2007. Retrieved 4 November 2007. Stagecoach Cambridgeshire. "Bus Timetables". Archived from the original on 10 December 2008. Retrieved 4 April 2009.
  7. "New Footbridge at St Neots station unveiled". Network Rail. 20 February 2014. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  8. Yonge, John (September 2006) [1994]. Jacobs, Gerald (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams 2: Eastern (3rd ed.). Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps. map 15C. ISBN 0-9549866-2-8.

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