Royston railway station
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The two platforms
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| Location | |
| Place | Royston |
| Local authority | District of North Hertfordshire |
| Grid reference | TL353412 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | RYS |
| Managed by | Great Northern |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | D |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2004/05 | 1.027 million |
| 2005/06 |  1.061 million |
| 2006/07 | 1.079 million |
| 2007/08 | 1.148 million |
| 2008/09 | 1.155 million |
| 2009/10 |  1.113 million |
| 2010/11 | 1.194 million |
| 2011/12 | 1.218 million |
| 2012/13 | 1.229 million |
| 2013/14 | 1.301 million |
| 2014/15 | 1.394 million |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
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| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Royston from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
 UK Railways portal |
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Royston railway station serves the town of Royston in Hertfordshire, England. The station is 44.9 mi (72.3 km) north east of London Kings Cross and 13.03 mi (20.97 km) south west of Cambridge on the Cambridge Line. Trains serving the station are operated by Great Northern.
The station is an important stop on the commuter line between King's Cross and Cambridge as the majority of semi-fast services between London and Cambridge stop at Royston - one exception being the 'Cambridge Cruiser' fast services from London. It is also the last station before Cambridge with platforms capable of handling 8-car or 12-car trains. Therefore, it is used by many commuters, not only from Royston but also from smaller stations north of Royston who transfer from stopping services to faster trains at the station.
Electrification
The railway from London King's Cross to Royston was electrified in 1978. Class 312 electric trains from King's Cross terminated at Royston; passengers wishing to travel to Cambridge had to change to a connecting diesel multiple unit train. From 1988 the whole line from London to Cambridge was electrified, ending the need to change trains at Royston. Full services commenced on 2 May 1988.[1] Network SouthEast commissioned the electrification from Royston to Cambridge.
Infrastructure
Both Up and Down lines through Royston station are signalled bi-directionally,[2] meaning that Royston is the only place on the Cambridge Line where a train can overtake one ahead of it. The Signalling is controlled by Kings Cross Power Signal Box.[2]
The station is located on a long sweeping curve, reducing the line speed[3] in the Up direction to 50 mph,[2] and a differential speed of 50/65 mph[2] in the Down direction.
Services
Great Northern serves Royston on services up to London King's Cross and down to Cambridge. Trains are usually formed of Class 317, Class 321 or Class 365 electric multiple units.
Trains to London King's Cross are either slow or semi-fast, departing at approximately half hour intervals. Slow services call at all major stations to King's Cross (not inner suburban-only stations), taking 62 minutes to arrive in London at an average of 43.5 mph (70.0 km/h)[4] Semi-fast services call at Baldock, Letchworth, Hitchin, Stevenage and Finsbury Park. During early morning peak-time there are some fast services running non-stop or stopping only at Letchworth, reaching London in under 40 minutes.
Two trains per hour also operate towards Cambridge.[4] Slow trains call at all stations and take 26 minutes to arrive at Cambridge, operating at an average of 30.1 mph (48.4 km/h).[4] Fast trains run non-stop to Cambridge, taking 17 minutes at an average of 46.0 mph (74.0 km/h).[4] Some Cambridge-bound services continue to Ely and King's Lynn.
From the completion of the Thameslink Programme in 2018 it is proposed that there will be a 2tph to Maidstone East service.[5]
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Trivia
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Royston and Ashwell & Morden railway stations are available for SimSig,[6] a signalling simulation game.
Royston station is mentioned in the novel About a Boy by Nick Hornby.
The train at the end of Jim Diamond's 1984 music video for I Should Have Known Better was heading to Royston from Finsbury Park.
References
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- ↑ Network Rail Line Speed article Retrieved 2015-06-28
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Great Northern route timetable First Capital Connect Retrieved 2009-06-01
- ↑ http://www.networkrail.co.uk/browse%20documents/rus%20documents/route%20utilisation%20strategies/kent/kent%20rus%20draft.pdf
- ↑ Simsig Website Retrieved 2015-07-01
External links
- Train times and station information for Royston railway station from National Rail
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