Bedford St Johns

[48111]

I have not been across the Bletchley Bedford line for quite some time, do they still run into Bedford St Johns from Bletchley or is it closed now ?

48111

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Originally Posted by 48111

I have not been across the Bletchley Bedford line for quite some time, do they still run into Bedford St Johns from Bletchley or is it closed now ?

48111

Last time I did that run the trains ran from Bedford Midland.

[48111]

Hello mate, ok thanks for that.
Keeping well are you ?

48111

[62440]

First time I went that way was in 1984 and trains used Bedford Midland then.

Regards, 62440.

[Midland Compound]

Bletchley trains now run through to Bedford Midland via a new curve built in 1984 (?). There is still a St Johns station, but it is on a new site, as the following tells you

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedford...ailway_station

Don't you folks know how to use Google ?

[62440]

I know how to use Google but don't trust wikipedia.

Regards, 62440.

[48111]

Originally Posted by Midland Compound

Bletchley trains now run through to Bedford Midland via a new curve built in 1984 (?). There is still a St Johns station, but it is on a new site, as the following tells you

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedford...ailway_station

Don't you folks know how to use Google ?

Yes Midland Compound, I do know how to use Google.
But I was asking a question via the Forum, which is a lot better than using Google or any other search engine.If then, no one on here knows the answer to any particular railway question, I will Google it, the same with any subject.

OK ?

48111

[25250]

The curve used to get to the re-sited Bedford St. Johns was always there. prior to the re-location, there was a triangle at Bedford. We used to turn the royal on it. The yard between Bedford St. Johns and Midland was called the transfer yard, and used to have spring loaded hand points there.
The left hand leg of the triangle (as you face east) was used by coal trains for the power station at Goldington road. These were usually powered by a 45. There also used to be a flat crossing at 90 degrees to the Bedford branch. This was the Midland line to Hitchin. Before St.Pancras was opened, all London bound Midland trains used this line to access the Great Northern line, and into London Kings Cross. When St. Pancras opened in 1868, the line became a branch, and was used mainly for the RAF camp at Henlow.
By the way, the film "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines" used the Hitchin branch for a sequence where an old bi-plane lands on a train of two coaches hauled by the preserved Highland goods loco.