Harlington railway station
Harlington  | |||||
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 The front of the main station building | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Harlington, District of Central Bedfordshire England | ||||
| Coordinates | 51°57′43″N 0°29′46″W / 51.962°N 0.496°W | ||||
| Grid reference | TL034303 | ||||
| Manager | Thameslink | ||||
| Platforms | 4 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | HLN | ||||
| Classification | DfT category D | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 1868 | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2020/21 |  67,484 | ||||
| 2021/22 |  0.198 million | ||||
| 2022/23 | 0.266 million | ||||
| 2023/24 | 0.296 million | ||||
| 2024/25 | 0.308 million | ||||
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Harlington railway station is located in Bedfordshire. It is named after the village of Harlington, on the outskirts of which it is located, but serves a wide rural area including the larger villages of Toddington and Barton-le-Clay. The station is situated on the Midland Main Line and managed by Thameslink.[1]
History
[edit]It was built by the Midland Railway in 1868 on its extension to St. Pancras. The station buildings still exist and were carefully restored in the early 1980s.[2]
Facilities
[edit]Harlington station has the following facilities shelters on each platform, a telephone, a ticket machine, cycle storage and a car park.[3]
The ticket office is open on weekdays and Saturdays.[3] In January 2009, the previous franchisee First Capital Connect proposed that the ticket office at Harlington railway station would open for just four hours per day,[4][5] although opening hours were not reduced as much as planned.[3]
Services
[edit]All services at Harlington are operated by Thameslink using Class 700 EMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[6]
- 4 tph to Bedford
- 2 tph to Brighton
- 2 tph to Three Bridges via Redhill
During the peak hours, the station is served by additional services to and from Rainham, Sutton and East Grinstead.
The station is also served by a half-hourly night service between Bedford and Three Bridges on Sunday to Friday nights.
| Preceding station |  National Rail |
Following station | ||
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| Thameslink | ||||
References
[edit]- ↑ "Harlington (Bedfordshire) Station | National Rail". www.nationalrail.co.uk. Retrieved 12 August 2025.
- ↑ Radford, B., (1983) Midland Line Memories: a Pictorial History of the Midland Railway Main Line Between London (St Pancras) & Derby London: Bloomsbury Books
- 1 2 3 "Station information : Thameslink and Great Northern". www.thameslinkrailway.com. Retrieved 28 May 2016.
- ↑ Bedfordshire On Sunday article, published 10 January 2009 Deprecated link archived 22 July 2012 at archive.today
- ↑ LutonToday.co.uk article, published 12 January 2009
- ↑ Table 52 National Rail timetable, May 2022
External links
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- Train times and station information for Harlington railway station from National Rail