52°03′50″N 0°19′23″W / 52.064°N 0.323°W / 52.064; -0.323 The Bedford–Hitchin line was a branch of the Midland Railway which served stations at Cardington...

Pancras opened in 1868. The connection to Hitchin ceased public services during 1961, but the line north of Bedford to Wigston Junction is still officially...

The Marston Vale line is the line between Bletchley and Bedford in England, a surviving remnant of the former Varsity Line between Oxford and Cambridge...

Bicester, Milton Keynes (at Bletchley) and Bedford, largely using the trackbed of the former Varsity Line. Thus it provides a potential route between...

February 1858. This line met with similar capacity problems at Hitchin as the former route via Rugby, so a new line was constructed from Bedford via Luton to...

the Bedford line on to Cambridge through Hitchin was submitted to Parliament in the 1846 session but failed standing orders. The line to Bedford opened...

opened in Bedford in 1857 on the Midland Railway's Leicester to Hitchin line. The route chosen by the Midland took it across the earlier line at a point...

via Bedford to Hitchin on 1 February 1858, by which MR trains used the GNR to reach London. After the opening of the Midland Railway's own line from...

The Cambridge line runs from Cambridge junction north of Hitchin on the East Coast Main Line to Shepreth Branch Junction south of Cambridge on the West...

century. Shefford grew up between a pair of fords on the main road from Bedford to Hitchin where it crosses the River Flit and River Hit. Another road leading...

Southill was a railway station on the Bedford to Hitchin Line which served the village of Southill in Bedfordshire, England. Opened in 1857, it gave more...

Shefford was a railway station on the Bedford to Hitchin Line which served the town of Shefford in Bedfordshire, England. Opened in 1857, it gave more...

Hitchin Town Football Club is an English semi-professional football club based in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. They are currently members of the Southern League...

reshaping of the cutting. When the line opens, Winslow will have direct trains to Oxford, Milton Keynes Central and Bedford. The journey time from Winslow...

Cardington was a railway station on the Bedford to Hitchin Line which served the village of Cardington in Bedfordshire, England. Opened in 1857, it gave...

1851. The first line to open on the site was the Buckinghamshire Railway, which opened a line from Bletchley to Banbury in 1850; a line branching west...

had its own rail facilities. The line did not suffer from the weight restrictions applied on the Bedford to Hitchin Line and was worked for many years by...

number of options for a new route for the Bedford–Cambridge sector of their planned Oxford–Cambridge railway line. In January 2020, the company announced...

Henlow Camp was a railway station on the Bedford to Hitchin Line which served the village of Henlow in Bedfordshire, England. Opened in 1857, it gave...

Hitchin Flyover is a grade-separated single-track railway viaduct near Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, which carries the Down Cambridge Flyover line...

Hitchin station, using a short embankment section of the former Bedford to Hitchin Line, a section of which was cleared of vegetation and made progressively...

and Hitchin Railway was an English railway company; it built a line from the Great Northern Railway at Hitchin to Shepreth. A Shepreth branch line was...

Cardington Workmen's Platform was a railway station on the Bedford to Hitchin Line which served the Royal Air Force station near the village of Cardington...

The station eventually closed together with the Bedford & Cambridge-built section of the Varsity Line in 1968. The wooden station buildings were derelict...

The East Coast Main Line is a major trunk railway in the United Kingdom, linking London with Edinburgh. A detailed diagram of the line is housed on this...

2000, p. 103. Woodward & Woodward 1994, p. 128. Shannon 1996, p. 92. "Bedford Local Transport Plan Fourth Annual Progress Report" (PDF). Bedfordshire...

Railway was acquired by the Bedford and Cambridge Railway in 1860, which intended to make the route part of a longer line to Cambridge. Track was relaid...

1996, p. 90. Woodward & Woodward 1994, p. 132. "British railways board". Bedford Borough Council and Central Bedfordshire Council. Archived from the original...

later purchased by the Bedford and Cambridge Railway (B&CR), which closed the line in January 1862 for reconstruction. The line reopened on 7 July 1862...

OL 11956311M. Cockman, F.G. (1974). The Railway Age in Bedfordshire. Bedford: Bedfordshire Historical Record Society. ISBN 0-85155-035-5. Croughton...