Rush Hour Trains at: Milton Keynes Central, WCML, 21/06/19

A very enjoyable rush hour period spent at Milton Keynes Central Train station on the West Coast Mainline where we see countless services from Virgin Trains, London Northwestern Railway, Southern and freight from Freightliner, DB Cargo UK, GBRF and Royal Mail.

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.

The station hasn't changed all that much since I was last here but hopefully once Great North Western Railway commence opewrations later this year this station will become even more better in terms of the variety of traffic that you're going to be seeing. That's assuming of course that they stick with their plan to use former LNER 225 sets on their Blackpool to London Euston routes.

Like the year previous the station saw an average passenger usage of 6.8 million.

My next rush hour film will be from Kings Sutton on the Chiltern Mainline.

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