Harlington railway station is located in Bedfordshire. It is named after the village of Harlington, on the outskirts of which it is located, but serves a wide rural area including the larger villages of Toddington and Barton-le-Clay. The station is situated on the Midland Main Line and managed by Thameslink.
History It was built by the Midland Railway in 1868 on its extension to St. Pancras. The station buildings still exist and were carefully restored in the early 1980s.Radford, B., (1983) Midland Line Memories: a Pictorial History of the Midland Railway Main Line Between London (St Pancras) & Derby London: Bloomsbury Books
Facilities
Harlington station has the following facilities shelters on each platform, a telephone, a ticket machine, cycle storage and a car park.
The ticket office is open on weekdays and Saturdays. In January 2009, the previous franchisee First Capital Connect proposed that the ticket office at Harlington railway station would open for just four hours per day,Bedfordshire On Sunday article, published 10 January 2009 LutonToday.co.uk article, published 12 January 2009 although opening hours were not reduced as much as planned.
Services All services at Harlington are operated by Thameslink using EMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: 4 tph to 2 tph to 2 tph to Three Bridges via
During the peak hours, the station is served by additional services to and from , and .
The station is also served by a half-hourly night service between Bedford and on Sunday to Friday nights.
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