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 2 miles (3.2 km) 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 by Great Northern, although most services are operated by Thameslink.

St Neots
The entrance to the station
General information
Location	St Neots District of Huntingdonshire England
Grid reference	TL197607
Managed by	Great Northern
Platforms	4
Other information
Station code	SNO
Classification	DfT category D
History
Opened	7 August 1850
Original company	Great Northern Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Northern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway Eastern Region of British Railways
Passengers
2019/20	1.262 million
2020/21	0.246 million
2021/22	0.673 million
2022/23	0.886 million
2023/24	0.959 million
Location
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Great Northern route
King's Lynn Watlington Downham Market Littleport Ely Waterbeach Cambridge North Cambridge M11 motorway Foxton Shepreth Peterborough Meldreth Huntingdon Royston St Neots Ashwell & Morden St Neots South/Tempsford Sandy Baldock Biggleswade A1(M) motorway Arlesey Letchworth Garden City Hitchin Stevenage Knebworth Watton-at-Stone Welwyn North Hertford North Welwyn Garden City Bayford Hatfield Cuffley Welham Green M25 motorway Brookmans Park Crews Hill Potters Bar Gordon Hill M25 motorway Enfield Chase Hadley Wood Grange Park New Barnet Winchmore Hill Oakleigh Park Palmers Green New Southgate Bowes Park Alexandra Palace Hornsey Harringay Finsbury Park London King's Cross Drayton Park London St Pancras International Highbury & Islington Thameslink route Essex Road Old Street Moorgate

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.

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

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.

St Neots station has automatic ticket barriers, which were installed in 2008 by former franchise holder First Capital Connect.

Services

Off-peak, all services at St Neots are operated by Thameslink using Class 700 EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:

• 2 tph to Horsham via London Bridge, Redhill and Gatwick Airport
• 2 tph to Peterborough (all stations)

During the peak hours, the station is served by an additional hourly service between London King's Cross and Peterborough. These services run non-stop between Stevenage and London King's Cross and are operated by Great Northern using Class 387 EMUs.

On Sundays, the service is reduced to hourly and southbound services run to London King's Cross instead of Horsham.

The station is also served by several buses, with routes to the local area and to Cambridge.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Sandy		Thameslink Great Northern Route		Huntingdon
Biggleswade		Great Northern London to Peterborough Peak Hours Only
	Historical railways
Tempsford Line open, station closed		Great Northern Railway East Coast Main Line		Offord and Buckden Line open, station closed

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.

Location

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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.

External links

• Train times and station information for St Neots railway station from National Rail