Ashwell & Morden railway station

Ashwell & Morden railway station is a wayside railway station in Cambridgeshire, England. Close to the border with the county of Hertfordshire, it is in the hamlet of Odsey, slightly north of the Icknield Way, a Roman Road that is now the A505. It is 41 miles (65.98 km) down the line from London King's Cross. Train services are currently operated by Thameslink.[1]

Ashwell & Morden
Location
PlaceOdsey
Local authoritySouth Cambridgeshire
Coordinates52.031°N 0.110°W / 52.031; -0.110
Grid referenceTL298386
Operations
Station codeAWM
Managed byGreat Northern
Number of platforms2
DfT categoryE
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 0.139 million
2015/16 0.144 million
2016/17 0.150 million
2017/18 0.152 million
2018/19 0.156 million
History
Original companyRoyston and Hitchin Railway
Pre-groupingGreat Northern Railway
Post-groupingLondon and North Eastern Railway
21 October 1850 (1850-10-21)Opened as Ashwell
1 April 1920Renamed Ashwell & Morden
National Rail – UK railway stations
  • Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Ashwell & Morden from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

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,[2] the R&HR was later absorbed by the Great Northern Railway (GNR). The name was changed to Ashwell and Morden on 1 April 1920[2] 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.

Services

All services at Ashwell & Morden are operated by Thameslink. As of December 2019 the current off-peak service in trains per hour (tph) is:

  • 2 tph to London Kings Cross (stopping)
  • 1 tph to Brighton (semi-fast)
  • 3 tph to Cambridge
Preceding station National Rail Following station
Thameslink
Thameslink

References
  1. 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 20. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.


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