Burton upon Trent railway station

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Burton upon Trent
Location
Place	Burton upon Trent
Local authority	East Staffordshire
Operations
Station code	BUT
Managed by	East Midlands Trains
Platforms in use	2
Live departures and station information from National Rail
Annual Rail Passenger Usage
2004/05 *	0.560 million
2005/06 *	0.614 million
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Burton upon Trent from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Burton upon Trent railway station serves the town of Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England. The railway industry refers to the station as Burton-on-Trent, by which it has been known for many years[1].

Contents 1 Facilities 2 Services 3 Future 4 External links

[edit] Facilities

Access to the station is from the bridge on Borough Road that crosses the railway line. At road level, there is a small car park, a taxi rank/shop and the entrance to the station, which contains the ticket office. In order to reach the two platforms (Platform One is for Derby, Nottingham, London and the North, Platform Two is for Tamworth, Birmingham and the South), one must descend a broad staircase, one of the few remaining parts of the old station, which was all but demolished in the early 1970s.

Only a single building now stands at platform level (indeed, Burton is an island station, where the tracks run around a single platform), and this building incorporates a waiting room, toilets and a despatcher's office. Timetable information is available from destination boards and also from a single television screen, yet the latter device does not update itself when delays occur. These are instead relayed to passengers through announcements by station staff over a tannoy.

The station has the PlusBus scheme where train and bus tickets can be bought together at a saving.

[edit] Services

The station is situated on the Cross Country Route, between the principal cities of Derby and Birmingham.

The station's operator is East Midlands Trains, although the vast majority of services are provided by CrossCountry, who provide trains between Cardiff Central, Birmingham, and Nottingham, as well as longer-distance services to destinations such as Bristol Temple Meads, Leeds and Newcastle.

East Midlands Trains provide two direct return weekday services to London via Derby and Leicester along the Midland Main Line.

[edit] Future

It has been proposed in the past that the line between Burton and Leicester, known as the Ivanhoe Line, be reopened for passenger use. However, there are no current plans for this, and it is unlikely in the short-term.

[edit] External links

• Train times and station information for Burton upon Trent railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Tamworth		CrossCountry Cardiff-Nottingham		Willington
Tamworth		CrossCountry Cross-Country Route		Derby
Terminus		East Midlands Trains Peak-time services		Willington Limited Service