Trains at: Milton Keynes Central, WCML, 16/03/18

An excellent evening spent at the always brilliant station of Milton Keynes Central on the West Coast Mainline where we see plenty of services from Virgin Trains, London Northwestern Railway, Southern and freight from Royal Mail.

Milton Keynes is the busiest of the stations serving the city, there are actually six stations that can be found within the city but I really only count the three that are situated on the WCML.

Last year the station took in 6.851 million passengers.

The station was built in May 1982 so it really is one of the youngest stations on the West Coast Mainline, the station has seen a couple of redevelopments. Mostly this was throughout 2006 when platform 6 was introduced, this was to allow stopping express trains to use platform 5 in either direction. The other addition was to bring in a new bay platform with platform 2A. This was built for what extension of the Marston Vale Line, but subsequently this never happened and is now used mostly by Southern.

Milton Keynes has a bright future ahead with the introduction of the East West Rail Link in 2019.

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