Stamford railway station

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This article is about the British train station. For the American train station, see Stamford (Metro-North station).

Stamford

Location

Place

Stamford

Local authority

South Kesteven

Coordinates

52°38′51″N 0°28′51″W / 52.6475, -0.4807Coordinates: 52°38′51″N 0°28′51″W / 52.6475, -0.4807

Operations

Station code

SMD

Managed by

East Midlands Trains

Platforms in use

Live departures and station information from National Rail

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

0.226 million

2005/06 *

0.224 million

National Rail - UK railway stations

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 Stamford from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.

UK Railways Portal

Stamford railway station serves the town of Stamford in Lincolnshire. The station is 20 km (12½ miles) west of Peterborough on CrossCountry Birmingham to Stansted Airport service

1 Services
2 Refurbishment
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Services

From Stamford there is generally an hourly service (operated by CrossCountry) each day towards Leicester and Birmingham New Street westbound and Peterborough, Cambridge and Stansted Airport eastbound as well as additional PM peak hour services..

Despite managing the station, East Midlands Trains only operates three daily services to the station; two early morning services to Norwich and a late night service to Nottingham.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Oakham		CrossCountry Birmingham - Stansted Airport		Peterborough
Oakham		East Midlands Trains Nottingham-Norwich		Peterborough

[edit] Refurbishment

Central Trains undertook internal modifications and refurbishment to the ticket office and booking hall towards the end of their franchise. Network Rail also invested £500,000 on refurbishment of the station building, modern lighting, overbridge and foot crossing to further update the station.^[1]