Disused railway lines and closed stations in Bedfordshire

44 miles of disused railway
26 closed stations
17 stations open today
7 named lost lines

Bedfordshire has 44 miles of disused railway and 26 closed stations, against 17 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 1.5 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Bedford to Cambridge Line, with 12 miles of its route inside Bedfordshire.

See Bedfordshire’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 44 miles of lost railway in Bedfordshire break down as 34 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 9.2 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left and 0.9 miles with track still in place but no trains. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in Bedfordshire

7 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside Bedfordshire; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Bedford to Cambridge Line	12
Hitchin and Bedford Line	11
Dunstable Branch	9.1
Bedford to Northampton Line	6.4
Varsity Line	2.0
Old Warden Tunnel	0.5
Luton Crescent Road Sidings	0.4

Closed railway stations in Bedfordshire

All 26 closed and former stations in Bedfordshire, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in Bedfordshire

17 stations in Bedfordshire still have a train service. The busiest are Luton Airport Parkway (4.7 million a year), Bedford (3.8 million a year), Luton (3.7 million a year), Leighton Buzzard (1.5 million a year) and Leagrave (1.5 million a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire and Cambridgeshire.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. County boundaries are today’s ceremonial counties, with unitary authorities folded into the county they sit in, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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