Ashwell and Morden railway station

Ashwell and Morden
Location
Place	Odsey
Local authority	South Cambridgeshire
Grid reference	TL298386
Operations
Station code	AWM
Managed by	First Capital Connect
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	98,481
2005/06 *	96,452
2006/07 *	108,013
2007/08 *	104,417
2008/09 *	0.117 million
History
Opened 6 February 1977 (6 February 1977)
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Ashwell and Morden from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.

Ashwell and Morden railway station is a wayside railway station in Cambridgeshire, England.

Close to the border with Hertfordshire, it is located in the hamlet of Odsey, slightly north of the Icknield Way, a Roman Road that is now the A505. The station is served by trains between Cambridge and London King's Cross. 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 by the Royston and Hitchin Railway, then run by the Great Northern Railway, it became part of 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.

References

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687. 

Services

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Baldock		First Capital Connect Great Northern stopping		Royston

Villages of the name

The station serves the village of Ashwell to the North-West. The Morden part of the name is derived from the endings of two villages to the north of the station - Guilden Morden and Steeple Morden.

Trivia

Ashwell & Morden and Royston railway stations are available for SimSig, a signal simulator game.

External links

• Train times and station information for Ashwell and Morden railway station from National Rail