Bow Brickhill (BWB)

Bow Brickhill is a stop on the Marston Vale Line in Buckinghamshire on the edge of Milton Keynes between Fenny Stratford and Woburn Sands.
LNWR 230 003 on a Bedford bound service

Information
Type: National Rail (Marston Vale Line)
Station code: BWB
Opened: 1905
Platforms: 2

The station was opened by the London North Western Railway in 1905 as a halt. The station was closed as a wartime economy measure in 1917 but re-opened in 1919 [1]. The station had very low ground-level platforms with wooden huts for station buildings.

The platforms were raised to standard height in 1959 [2]. The station became unstaffed in the 1980s. The two platforms are staggered either side of a level crossing. The level crossing was controlled by a signal box until the line's modernisation. The station is managed by London Northwestern Railway who operate trains on the line between Bletchley and Bedford.
The two platforms are staggered either side of the level crossing

Platform shelter

LNWR 230 004 heads through the crossing

The shelter on the up line (towards Bletchley) is at ground level

View from the level crossing

[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Bletchley to Cambridge (Middleton Press, 2007) Fig. 20
[2] Ibid. Fig. 23