Bayford railway station

Bayford National Rail
Location
Place Bayford
Local authority District of East Hertfordshire
Grid reference TL315083
Operations
Station code BAY
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*
2012/13 Decrease 37,596
2013/14 Increase 41,358
2014/15 Increase 49,796
2015/16 Increase 53,484
2016/17 Decrease 50,146
History
Key dates Opened 2 June 1924 (2 June 1924)
Original company London and North Eastern Railway
Post-grouping London and North Eastern Railway
2 June 1924 (1924-06-02) Opened
11 March 1973 Closed
7 May 1973 Re-opened
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Bayford from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Bayford railway station serves the villages of Bayford and Brickendon in Hertfordshire, England. The station is on the Hertford Loop Line, 16 miles 56 chains (26.88 km) down the line from London King's Cross[1]

Bayford Station in 1961

The only bus service to serve Bayford is Centrebus 308, operating just 2-3 times a day, with connections to Cuffley and Hertford.

Services

The service runs to Moorgate via Highbury & Islington. The service uses Class 313 soon to be Class 717 EMUs, as these are the only units cleared to Moorgate.

The typical off-peak weekday service is 3 trains per hour to Moorgate and to Hertford North; one per hour northbound continues to Letchworth Garden City via Stevenage.[2]

At weekends, the service is half-hourly to Moorgate and Hertford North and hourly to Stevenage. Southbound trains no longer run to London King's Cross on weekdays after 22.00 or at weekends since the December 2015 timetable change.

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Cuffley   Great Northern
Hertford Loop Line		   Hertford North

References

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

Coordinates: 51°45′29″N 0°05′46″W / 51.758°N 0.096°W / 51.758; -0.096

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