Shepreth railway station

Shepreth

Location
Place	Shepreth
Local authority	South Cambridgeshire
Grid reference	TL392481
Operations
Station code	STH
Managed by	Great Northern
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	48,622
2005/06	56,747
2006/07	76,382
2007/08	75,052
2008/09	75,704
2009/10	79,104
2010/11	83,524
2011/12	82,422
2012/13	86,304
2013/14	92,146
2014/15	105,802
History
Key dates	Opened 1851 (1851)
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Shepreth from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Shepreth railway station serves the village of Shepreth in Cambridgeshire, England. The station is on the Cambridge Line between Royston & Shepreth Branch Junction, 8 miles (13 km) south west of Cambridge.

History

It was opened in 1851 by the Royston and Hitchin Railway as the northern terminus of an extension of the original route from Royston, after earlier plans by the Eastern Counties Railway to build a Cambridge to Bedford line through the village fell through due to lack of finance. The ECR did complete the line north through to a junction with its main line from London to Cambridge in 1852 and initially ran services on the R&HR, but they later gave way to the Great Northern Railway when its lease of the Royston company expired in 1866. The GNR then began running through trains between Kings Cross & Cambridge over the line from 1 April that year, having gained full running powers over ECR metals and access to Cambridge station as part of an agreement ratified by parliament two years previously.^[1]

Goods traffic was handled at the station until 1965. From 1978, through trains to the capital temporarily ceased when electric operation was inaugurated to Royston as part of the Kings Cross Outer Suburban electrification scheme. Passengers then had to use a Cambridge to Royston DMU shuttle and change at the latter station for London. Government approval for extending the wires through to Cambridge was eventually granted in 1987 (as a 'fill-in' scheme to link wired routes either side) and the work was completed 12 months later, allowing through running to Kings Cross to resume.^[2]

Services

There is a generally an hourly stopping service to London Kings Cross southbound and Cambridge northbound, seven days a week. Service doubles to two trains per hour in each direction during weekday peak periods.^[3]

Shepreth Rail Station from the level crossing

References

↑ "The Railway in the Rhee Valley" Spain, J Wordpress.com; Retrieved 23 August 2016
↑ "Cambridge - Its Railways & Station"Disused Stations Site Record; Retrieved 23 August 2016
↑ Table 25 National Rail timetable, May 2016

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Meldreth		Great Northern Great Northern stopping		Foxton

External links

Train times and station information for Shepreth 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, Great Northern, Southern and Southeastern routes

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.

Coordinates: 52°06′50″N 0°01′52″E / 52.114°N 0.031°E / 52.114; 0.031

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