Meldreth railway station

Meldreth
Meldreth
Location	Meldreth, South Cambridgeshire; England
Coordinates	52°05′27″N 0°00′32″E / 52.0907°N 0.0089°ECoordinates: 52°05′27″N 0°00′32″E / 52.0907°N 0.0089°E
Grid reference	TL377455
Managed by	Great Northern
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	MEL
Classification	DfT category E
History
Opened	1 August 1851
Passengers
2016/17	0.270 million
2017/18	0.308 million
2018/19	0.295 million
2019/20	0.306 million
2020/21	82,016
Notes
	Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Meldreth railway station serves the villages of Meldreth and Melbourn in Cambridgeshire, England. It is 47 miles 75 chains (47.94 miles, 77.15 km) from London King's Cross on the Cambridge Line.^[1]

Services[]

Meldreth station is served by trains operated by Thameslink. The typical weekday off-peak service in trains per hour is: ^[2]

Additional services run during the Monday-Friday peak hours.

On weekends, the service reduces to hourly in each direction.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Royston		Thameslink London to Cambridge		Shepreth

On 1 August 2001 local celebrations marked the 150th anniversary of the station's opening in 1851, during the so-called Victorian Railway Mania.

^ 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.
^ "Timetable 13: Cambridge, Royston and Letchworth to London" (PDF). Govia Thameslink Railway, December 2019.

Train times and station information for Meldreth railway station from National Rail
Meldreth Railway Station at Meldreth Local History Group

v t Great Northern Route
East Coast Main Line (main route)	King's Cross Finsbury Park Harringay Hornsey Alexandra Palace New Southgate Oakleigh Park New Barnet Hadley Wood Potters Bar Brookmans Park Welham Green Hatfield Welwyn Garden City Welwyn North Knebworth Stevenage Hitchin
Northern City Line	Moorgate Old Street Essex Road Highbury & Islington Drayton Park
Hertford Loop Line	Bowes Park Palmers Green Winchmore Hill Grange Park Enfield Chase Gordon Hill Crews Hill Cuffley Bayford Hertford North Watton-at-Stone
Peterborough Line	Arlesey Biggleswade Sandy St. Neots Huntingdon Peterborough
Hitchin–Cambridge Line	Letchworth Garden City Baldock Ashwell & Morden Royston Meldreth Shepreth Foxton Cambridge Cambridge North
Train operating company	Govia Thameslink Railway
Former operators	West Anglia Great Northern (WAGN) First Capital Connect
Closed line	Varsity Line
Closed stations	Abbots Ripton Denver Enfield Harston Hilgay Holloway and Caledonian Road Holme (Cambridgeshire) Holme (Norfolk) Maiden Lane Offord and Buckden Ouse Bridge Stapleford Stow Bardolph Tempsford Three Counties Yaxley and Farcet
Infrastructure	Hitchin Flyover

Meldreth

Location	Meldreth, South Cambridgeshire England
Coordinates	52°05′27″N 0°00′32″E / 52.0907°N 0.0089°E / 52.0907; 0.0089Coordinates: 52°05′27″N 0°00′32″E / 52.0907°N 0.0089°E / 52.0907; 0.0089
Grid reference	TL377455
Managed by	Great Northern
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	MEL
Classification	DfT category E
History
Opened	1 August 1851
Passengers
2016/17	0.270 million
2017/18	0.308 million
2018/19	0.295 million
2019/20	0.306 million
2020/21	82,016




Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road