Marston Vale line The Marston Vale line is the line between and in England, formerly part of the "Varsity line" between and, and the line is covered by the Marston Vale community rail partnership .History The line was opened in 1846 by the London and Birmingham Railway , though the L&B merged with the Grand Junction Railway to become the London and North Western Railway whilst construction was ongoing – the LNWR ran it from its opening. The line later became part of the cross-country Varsity line from to . Much of the line was built on land owned by the 7th Duke of Bedford , who supported the line but insisted that any station on his estate be constructed in half-timbered style . The line was threatened in the late 1950s and again in 1964 – though the Bletchley to Oxford and Bedford to Cambridge sections succumbed in December 1967, the Bletchley to Bedford section survived. In 1977 the Parliamentary Select Committee on Nationalised Industries recommended that electrification of more of Britain's rail network be considered. By 1979 British Rail presented a range of options to do so by 2000, some of which included the Marston Vale line. The proposal was not implemented.Silverlink operated the line from privatisation in 1996 until 2007. Services were initially in the hands of a mixture of heritage slam-door diesel multiple units formed of 2-car Class 117 and single-car Class 121 units until replacement with Class 150/1 trains inherited from Central Trains .London Midland took over in 2007 until 9/12/2017. They used a mixture of Class 150/1 and Class 153 multiple units, inherited from Silverlink. On 10 December 2017, West Midlands Trains took over the franchise , staff and rolling stock , operating as London Northwestern Railway .Operation The line is part of the Network Rail Strategic Route 18 , SRS 18.12 and is classified as a rural line.Passenger services are operated by West Midlands Trains, using two-car class 230 units. An hourly service operates in each direction Monday–Saturday. It is one of a number of British Railways that is covered by a Community Rail Partnership , in this case known as the . Like other Community Rail Partnerships around the country, the Partnership aims to increase use of the line by getting local people involved with their local line. They do this by various means, such as holding community events, running special train services, and publicising the line locally. From December 2018, West Midlands Trains were to introduce Class 230 D-Trains, built by Vivarail , onto the route, replacing the current trains, but the introduction was delayed until going into service on 23 April 2019.Infrastructure Apart from a short length of single track at both ends, the line is double track , and is not electrified . It has a loading gauge of W8 and a line speed of. The line's signalling centre is at.Proposed developments The Marston Vale line is one of the two remaining sections of the Varsity line still in passenger use. The programme to reinstate the entire Oxford-Cambridge line is described at East West Rail.In June 2005, the then franchisee, Silverlink Trains announced an intention to extend the Marston Vale service via the West Coast Main Line to, where a new platform and track would be built alongside the up slow track. Work began on 4 December 2006 at the station to prepare for a service connection. The platform was ready for use in January 2009 but the service did not materialise and there are no longer any published plans for it to do so. The service pattern on East West Rail remains to be announced ; specifically whether there will be an explicit BedfordMilton Keynes Central service or whether passengers will continue to have to change at Bletchley. There is no east-to-north chord between this line and the WCML: the route the chord might take is currently occupied by trade outlets and a warehouse.Footnotes
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