Baldock railway station

Baldock railway station serves the historic market 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
General information
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
2019/20	0.654 million
2020/21	0.154 million
2021/22	0.387 million
2022/23	0.503 million
2023/24	0.527 million
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

The station in 1961

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

Services at Baldock are operated by Thameslink and Great Northern using Class 387 and 700 EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:^[2]

• 1 tph to London King's Cross (stopping)
• 2 tph to Brighton via London Bridge and Gatwick Airport (semi-fast)
• 3 tph to Cambridge (2 of these run semi-fast and 1 calls at all stations)

During the peak hours, the service to London King's Cross and the all stations service to Cambridge are increased to 2 tph.

On Sundays, the service between Brighton and Cambridge is reduced to hourly.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Letchworth Garden City		Thameslink Hitchin to Cambridge Line		Ashwell & Morden
		Great Northern Hitchin to Cambridge Line		Ashwell & Morden or Royston

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. Table 25, 52 National Rail timetable, May 2023

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 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. OL 11956311M.
• 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

External links

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

51.993°N 0.188°W / 51.993; -0.188