Everything about Burton Upon Trent Railway Station totally explained
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
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Facilities
Access to the station is from the bridge on Borough Road that crosses the railway line. At road level, there's 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 doesn't 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.
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.
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's unlikely in the short-term.
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