Foxton railway station

Foxton railway station serves the village of Foxton in Cambridgeshire, England. It is 50 miles 77 chains (50.96 miles, 82.02 km) from London King's Cross.^[1] The station is operated by Great Northern.

Foxton
Platform 1, for London Kings Cross
General information
Location	Foxton, South Cambridgeshire England
Grid reference	TL409487
Managed by	Great Northern
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	FXN
Classification	DfT category F2
Key dates
1 April 1852	Station opened
Passengers
2018/19	0.102 million
2019/20	0.105 million
2020/21	30,564
2021/22	75,252
2022/23	87,794
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

It is located adjacent to the busy A10 level crossing, which is monitored from the nearby signal box. A freight-only branch (the Barrington Light Railway) diverges to the west beyond the crossing south of the station, serving the nearby Barrington cement works & quarry.^[2]

Services

All services at Foxton are operated by Great Northern using Class 387 EMUs.

The typical off-peak service is one train per hour in each direction between Cambridge and London King's Cross. Additional services call at the station during the peak hours.^[3]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Shepreth		Great Northern Cambridge Line		Cambridge
	Disused railways
Shepreth		British Rail Eastern Region Cambridge Line		Harston

Developments

Platform 2 (for trains to Cambridge) was extended in Summer 2017 to allow 8-car trains to call without straddling the level crossing behind.^[4] Platform 1 was not lengthened, as it is located before the crossing and 8-car trains use Selective door operation to open the doors on the front four carriages only.^[5]

References

1. 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.
2. "DB Schenker Rail UK runs first service to Barrington Quarry" Archived 16 September 2016 at the Wayback MachineDB Cargo; Retrieved 23 August 2016
3. Table 25 National Rail timetable, June 2024
4. "Platform extensions in South Cambridgeshire - Thameslink Programme". Thameslink Programme. Archived from the original on 1 April 2017. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
5. "Praise for platform extensions at Shepreth and Foxton but rail bosses say Meldreth work not needed". Royston Crow. Retrieved 9 July 2018.

External links

• Train times and station information for Foxton railway station from National Rail

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