Meldreth railway station

Meldreth

General information
Location	Meldreth, South Cambridgeshire England
Coordinates	52°05′27″N 0°00′32″E / 52.0907°N 0.0089°E / 52.0907; 0.0089
Grid reference	TL377455
Managed by	Great Northern
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	MEL
Classification	DfT category E
History
Opened	1 August 1851
Passengers

2018/19	0.295 million
2019/20	0.306 million
2020/21	82,016
2021/22	0.181 million
2022/23	0.217 million




Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Meldreth railway station serves the villages of Meldreth and Melbourn in Cambridgeshire, England. It is 47 miles 75 chains (47.94 miles, 77.15 km) from London King's Cross on the Cambridge Line.^[1]

Services

All services at Meldreth are operated by Great Northern using Class 387 EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:^[2]

Additional services call at the station during the peak hours, increasing the service to 2 tph in each direction.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Royston		Great Northern Hitchin to Cambridge Line		Shepreth

On 1 August 2001 local celebrations marked the 150th anniversary of the station's opening in 1851, during the so-called Victorian Railway Mania.

^ Padgett, David (October 2016) [1988]. Brailsford, Martyn (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams 2: Eastern (4th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. map 24C. ISBN 978-0-9549866-8-1.
^ Table 25 National Rail timetable, May 2023

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Train times and station information for Meldreth railway station from National Rail
Meldreth Railway Station at Meldreth Local History Group

v t e Great Northern route
East Coast Main Line (main route)	London 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
Cambridge line	Letchworth Garden City Baldock Ashwell & Morden Royston Meldreth Shepreth Foxton Cambridge Cambridge North
Train operating company	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
Infrastructure	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.

This page was last edited on 15 December 2023, at 11:54