Rush Hour Trains at: Milton Keynes Central, WCML, 04/09/26, Feat LSL Charter

An excellent evening session spent at Milton Keynes Central on the West Coast Mainline where we see services from London Northwestern Railway, Avanti West Coast, Lumo, Chiltern Railways and freight from GBRF, Freightliner, DB Cargo UK, DC Rail and a special charter from LSL.

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, although Southern now no longer serve Milton Keynes. The furthest north they travel on the West Coast Mainline is Hemel Hempstead. However this also could be used for the East - West Rail traffic at some stage depending on what rolling stock they decide to use.

Once the East West Rail line has been completed from Oxford to Bicester and the subsequent section from there to Bletchley completed Chiltern Railways will be running services from Oxford to Milton Keynes and Aylesbury to Milton Keynes.

My next rush hour film will be from Peterborough on the East Coast Mainline.

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