Cheddington is a stop on the West Coast Main Line in Buckinghamshire between Leighton Buzzard and Tring.
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| LNWR 350 265 departs for London Euston |
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| Type: | National Rail (West Coast Main Line) |
| Station code: | CED |
| Opened: | 1838 |
| Platforms: | 4 |
The station was opened by the London & Birmingham Railway in 1838 as Aylesbury Junction to link up with the Aylesbury Railway [1] which opened the following year. The station was renamed Cheddington Junction in 1850, it lost the Junction suffix twenty years later. The line to Aylesbury High Street was closed to passengers in 1953, though freight continued to use the line until 1964. The line has now been lifted. In 1963 the Great Train Robbery took place just over a mile north of the station at Bridego Bridge.
Cheddington has platforms for both the slow and fast lines of the WCML though only the platforms on the slow lines are in regular use, and fast services by Avanti West Coast do not stop at the station, only London Northwestern Railway services on the slow lines. The fast line platforms tend to be only used during engineering works.
The station is unstaffed and has a footbridge for access between the different platforms. The station is managed by LNWR. The current station buildings date from a rebuilding in 1956.
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| Station building, no longer staffed |
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| View from the footbridge |
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| Brick shelter |
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| Footbridge |
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| Looking back north |
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Watford to Leighton Buzzard (Middleton Press, 2004) Fig. 72
