Cheddington railway station serves the village of Cheddington, in

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, and the surrounding town of

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and the village of Mentmore. The station is north west of London Euston on the

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, which also provides all services. The station has four platforms, each with 12 carriage capacity, but only platforms 3 and 4 are used regularly and platforms 1 and 2 are used only during engineering works and disruption. Platforms 2 and 3 form a centre island. The main station buildings are located on Platform 1 adjacent to the car park. Access to the other platforms is gained by a footbridge. The ticket office closed on 28 March 2013 and the station is now unstaffed. Although starting in December 2017 there is a security guard on the station around the clock, the ticket building is still closed. Cheddington was formerly a junction for the

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's branch line to Aylesbury High Street. This branch terminated in the east of

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and made no connection to the

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station in that town. The branch closed to passengers in 1953 but with freight services continuing until 1964. The trackless edge of the Aylesbury branch platform is still in evidence at Cheddington and part of the old track bed of the branch is now used as the station's approach road. Just over north of this station, on the stretch of line between Cheddington and

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, is Bridego Bridge, the scene of the Great Train Robbery of 1963.

Services

All services at Cheddington are operated by

. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: * 2 tph to London Euston * 2 tph to A very small number of early morning and late evening services are extended beyond Milton Keynes Central to and from and .

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Railway stations in Buckinghamshire DfT Category E stations Former London and Birmingham Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1838 Railway stations served by West Midlands Trains 1838 establishments in the United Kingdom Stations on the West Coast Main Line {{SouthEastEngland-railstation-stub