Beford railway station in BR days

Bedford station in BR days

A pair of class 25s light engines at Bedford

A pair of class 25s light engines, with class 25270 this end at Bedford station in 1976 .

A four car DMU in Bedford Midland station in 1979.

Class 47462 on a London train in Bedford station in 1979.

Work is underway on todays Bedford staion.

Class 45145 into the old Bedford station Bedford station.

Just to the south of the station in BR days

Class 45 out of Bedford station with a up parcels train.

The yard just to the south of Bedford Midland station.

The goods shed at the south of at Bedford station, then called Bedford Depot, with some of the wagons used when the overhead wires were being put up.

Bedford Midland station opened in 1859. In 1894 fast lines that bypassed the station were opened. The Midland railway ran the trains till the grouping when the LMS took control.

From 1948 British Railways ran the trains around Bedford till Privatisation of the railways when Midland Main line and then Thamslink and Siverlink took over the running of the trains. From the 1st April 2006, First Capital Connect had been operating the the Thamslink trains between London, Brighton and Bedford till late 2014.

Thamslink now run these trains.

WAGN ran the Great Northern trains between King's Lynn Cambridge and London Kings Cross as well as between Peterborough and Kings Cross in 2004.

There was a second Bedford station which was called Bedford St Johns this was on the line from Oxford to Cambridge. Trains from Bedford to Bretchley used this station after the Bedford to Cambridge part of the line closed.

Bedford St Johns station was closed and the trains were moved to the Bedford Midland station.

Page updated 7/10/2021

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