Ashwell and Morden railway station

Ashwell and Morden

Location
Place	Odsey
Local authority	South Cambridgeshire
Coordinates	52°01′52″N 0°06′36″W / 52.031°N 0.110°W / 52.031; -0.110Coordinates: 52°01′52″N 0°06′36″W / 52.031°N 0.110°W / 52.031; -0.110
Grid reference	TL298386
Operations
Station code	AWM
Managed by	Great Northern
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	E
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2010/11	0.116 million
2011/12	0.130 million
2012/13	0.119 million
2013/14	0.131 million
2014/15	0.139 million
History
Original company	Royston and Hitchin Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Northern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
21 October 1850 (1850-10-21)	Opened as Ashwell
1 April 1920	Renamed Ashwell and Morden
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Ashwell and Morden from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Ashwell and Morden railway station is a wayside railway station in Cambridgeshire, England.

Close to the border with Hertfordshire, it is in the hamlet of Odsey, slightly north of the Icknield Way, a Roman Road that is now the A505. The station is served by trains between Cambridge and London King's Cross. The villages it serves, as well as Odsey, are Ashwell, Guilden Morden and Steeple Morden, although it is located a couple of miles from each of them and linked to them only by minor roads.

History

Opened as Ashwell station by the Royston and Hitchin Railway (R&HR) on 21 October 1850,^[1] the R&HR was later absorbed by the Great Northern Railway (GNR). The name was changed to Ashwell and Morden on 1 April 1920^[1] three years before the GNR amalgamated with several other railways to form 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.

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Royston		Great Northern Great Northern stopping		Baldock

1 2 Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 20. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.

Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687.

Train times and station information for Ashwell and Morden railway station from National Rail

Great Northern Route

GN core route stations	King's Cross Finsbury Park Harringay Hornsey Alexandra Palace New Southgate Oakleigh Park New Barnet Hadley Wood Potters Bar Brookmans Park Welham Green Hatfield Welwyn Garden City Welwyn North Knebworth Stevenage Hitchin

Northern City Line	Moorgate Old Street Essex Road Highbury & Islington Drayton Park

Hertford Loop Line	Bowes Park Palmers Green Winchmore Hill Grange Park Enfield Chase Gordon Hill Crews Hill, Cuffley Bayford Hertford North Watton-at-Stone

Peterborough Line	Arlesey Biggleswade Sandy St Neots Huntingdon Peterborough

Hitchin-Cambridge Line	Letchworth Garden City Baldock Ashwell & Morden Royston Meldreth Shepreth Foxton Cambridge

Train operating company	Great Northern (part of Govia Thameslink Railway)

Former operators	West Anglia Great Northern (WAGN) First Capital Connect

Closed line	Varsity Line

Closed stations	Abbots Ripton Denver Enfield Harston Hilgay Holloway and Caledonian Road Holme (Cambridgeshire) Holme (Norfolk) Maiden Lane Offord and Buckden Ouse Bridge Stapleford Stow Bardolph Tempsford Three Counties Yaxley and Farcet

Future stations and infrastructure	Cambridge Science Park Hitchin flyover

Thameslink and Great Northern routes serving this station

Great Northern Peterborough & Cambridge	London King's Cross Finsbury Park Potters Bar Hatfield Welwyn Garden City Welwyn North Knebworth Stevenage Hitchin Arlesey Biggleswade Sandy St. Neots Huntingdon Peterborough Letchworth Garden City Baldock Ashwell & Morden Royston Meldreth Shepreth Foxton Cambridge

Stations in italics are served on limited occasions, at peak hours or on Sundays only.

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