St. Neots railway station

St Neots Railway Station serves the town of St Neots in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located to the east of the town approximately 1.5 miles from the town centre. The station is approximately 51+3/4 mi north of London Kings Cross on the East Coast Main Line. St. Neots is managed and served by First Capital Connect.

The station has two large platforms and 4 main rail lines, a pair of "up and down" slow lines used by stopping services and a pair of "up and down" fast lines used by high speed services passing through, as well as Fast First Capital Connect stopping services that stop there.

History
The first section of the Great Northern Railway (GNR) - that from Louth to a junction with the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway at Grimsby - opened on 1 March 1848, but the southern section of the main line, between Maiden Lane and Peterborough, was not opened until August 1850. St. Neots was one of the original stations, opening with the line on 7 August 1850.

It was the scene of a derailment of a Scottish night express in 1895.

Facilities
There are both male and female toilet facilities at the station and a newsagent/coffee seller in the ticket hall. A taxi office is situated outside the station, where minicabs can be booked.

St. Neots station has automatic ticket barriers, which were installed in 2008 by First Capital Connect which has led to the station being staffed for longer hours, and the station also has help points throughout.

Services
St Neots station is served by a half-hourly service southbound to London Kings Cross and northbound to Peterborough. There is an hourly service in each direction on Sundays.

There are extra fast services at peak times to/from Kings Cross, which only call at Biggleswade or at either Stevenage (mornings, southbound) or Hitchin (evenings, northbound).

The station is also served by several buses, with routes to St Neots town centre, Eaton Ford, Eaton Socon, Loves Farm, Cambridge, and Eynesbury.

Plans for the station
There are plans to provide a new bridge and lifts to the platforms, access to the station from both sides of the track, additional car parking and a bus interchange as part of the Loves Farm homes development as currently access to all four platforms is via stairs and a bridge, and as such they are inaccessible to disabled people.

Construction is expected to begin in August 2013.