Brookmans Park railway station


Brookmans Park railway station serves the village of Brookmans Park in Hertfordshire, England. The station is located north of London Kings Cross on the East Coast Main Line, on the stretch between and.

History

The station was opened by the London and North Eastern Railway on 19 July 1926.
On 21 May 1942, during WW2 Anthony Eden met Russian Peoples' Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov, along with his staff on Brookmans Park railway station platform, bought by a sleeper train pulled by Class A4 locomotive Number 4495 'Golden Fleece' so they could be driven to Chequers to meet Winston Churchill to sign the Anglo-Soviet Treaty.

Facilities

In Autumn 2008, a Shere self-service ticket machine was installed opposite the booking office window, replacing an earlier Avantix self-service machine.
Uniquely, contactless payment cards can be used to touch in and out to pay fares for travel to and from Brookmans Park, but Oyster cards cannot.

Station layout

The station has four platforms in total, two island platforms on both sides, but only platforms 1 & 4 are used regularly, platforms 2 & 3 are only used during line disruption or engineering work. The west side serves northbound services and another island platform serving southbound services which lies to the east. The station car park parallels the island platforms to the east.
The platforms are reached by a steep footbridge, the station building being a part-time booking office at the NW extremity of the station.

Ticket office opening times and station staffing hours

Below are the current opening and staffing times for Brookmans Park,.
Ticket Office Hours--
DayOpensCloses
Monday to Friday06:5010:00
Saturday--
Sunday--

Station Staffing Hours--
DayFromUntil
Monday to Friday06:3510:15
Saturday--
Sunday--

Route

Services

There is a basic weekday off-peak service of 3tph in both directions, southbound to Moorgate and northbound to Welwyn Garden City. This drops to every half-hour at weekends. Late evening & weekend services used to run to and from Kings Cross rather than using the Northern City Line, but from 13 December 2015 Great Northern introduced a weekend service on the line and extended evening hours until the end of service.