Wolverton railway station

Wolverton railway station serves northern Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, especially Wolverton, Stony Stratford, New Bradwell, and nearby villages in the Borough of Milton Keynes and south Northamptonshire. The station is on the West Coast Main Line, about 52 miles from Euston, between Milton Keynes Central and Northampton. The station is one of the six stations serving the Milton Keynes urban area.
The first station was built for the opening of the London and Birmingham Railway on 17 September 1838, on the embankment just north of the canal above Wolverton Park. It proved to be temporary as the railway company purchased an additional 13.5 acres to the south, where they built a larger, permanent station in 1840, at the east end of Church Street. The new station included refreshment rooms which employed a full-time staff of 29. A hotel was planned but never built. The waiting room was lavishly redecorated for the visit of Queen Victoria in 1844, who spent that Christmas as the guest of the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. In 1881, the main line was re-routed a little to the east to allow for expansion of the Wolverton Works and a new station opened in August 1881. The ticket hall was a wooden building on a new bridge above the railway line and passengers needed to reach the platforms via flights of stairs. The wooden station stood here for over 100 years until British Rail demolished it in about 1990.

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