Looking NW on A5 at site of former Dunstable North station, 1990
General information
Location
Dunstable, Central Bedfordshire England
Grid reference
TL012227
Platforms
3
Other information
Status
Disused
History
Original company
Dunstable & London & Birmingham Railway
Pre-grouping
London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping
London, Midland and Scottish Railway London Midland Region of British Railways
Key dates
1 June 1848
Opened as Dunstable
January 1866
Rebuilt 90m north
25 September 1950
Renamed Dunstable North
26 April 1965
Closed to passengers
9 October 1967
Closed to goods
Dunstable North was a railway station on the London and North Western Railway's branch line from Leighton Buzzard which served Dunstable in Bedfordshire from 1848 to 1967. Originally the terminus of the London and North Western Railway's branch line from Leighton Buzzard, Dunstable became the point where the line met with the Great Northern's branch line from Luton in 1858. The station became the hub of a number of sidings connecting a variety of concerns to the line, including Waterlows, Bedfordshire County Council, Associated Portland Cement, Dunstable gasworks and a coal yard operated by the Great Northern. Against a background of falling passenger numbers and declining freight returns, the station closed to passengers in 1965 and to goods in 1967. Connections were retained with the cement works and coal yard, which became an oil depot, until 1988 and the line eventually closed in 1991. The site of the station is now occupied by offices of Central Bedfordshire Council (previously the headquarters of South Bedfordshire District Council). A section of the former line to the west of the site has become part of route 6 of the National Cycle Network.
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