Oakham railway station serves the county town of Oakham in Rutland, England. The station is situated on the line is the Birmingham to Peterborough Line, from London St Pancras via Corby, and is approximately halfway between Leicester to the west and Peterborough to the east.

Oakham is the only surviving passenger railway station in Rutland. The line is served by CrossCountry services between and or . There is also an infrequent East Midlands Railway service to .

History The station was opened by the Midland Railway on 1 May 1848. The building was designed by the company architect, Edward Wood of London, and is Grade II listed.

Facilities

The station building, the nearby level crossing signal box and footbridge are all listed buildings. The signal box, built in 1899, was the prototype for the Airfix kit signal box. The station footbridge was refurbished between October 2020 and April 2021.

The station has a ticket office which is staffed seven days a week, a car park, and help points for times where there are no staff present.

Passenger volume +Passenger Volume at Oakham2002–032004–052005–062006–072007–082008–092009–102010–112011–122012–132013–142014–152015–162016–172017–182018–192019–202020–212021–222022–23Entries and exits183,240192,995189,377208,508215,523226,106202,358214,922199,252203,668202,718208,754212,676221,118226,920239,038244,69629,220154,014172,176Interchanges–00001771,3584,4314,9405,2253,6584,1654,4064,7204,8482,4571,7394611,4593,345 The statistics cover twelve month periods that start in April.

Services There is an hourly service in each direction operated by CrossCountry. Services run westbound to Birmingham New Street via , whilst services eastbound run to via .

Despite managing the station, East Midlands Railway operate only a limited number of services. A single daily return service to London St Pancras commenced on 27 April 2009 running via and is notable for being the first regular passenger service to cross Welland Viaduct since 1966. The company introduced a further return service from via (for East Midlands Airport) from May 2010. An early morning service runs from to and an evening service operates from via Peterborough to Nottingham.

Notes

References

Bibliography

External links