Foxton railway station serves the village of Foxton in

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, England. It is from . The station is operated by

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. It is located adjacent to the busy A10

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, which is monitored from the nearby signal box. A freight-only branch (the Barrington Light Railway) diverges to the west beyond the crossing south of the station, serving the nearby Barrington cement works & quarry.

Services

All services at Foxton are operated by

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using

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. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: * 2 tph to (stopping) * 2 tph to On weekends, the service is reduced to hourly in each direction. Platform 2 (for trains to Cambridge) was extended in Summer 2017 to allow 8-car trains to call without straddling the level crossing behind. Platform 1 was not lengthened, as it is located before the crossing and 8-car trains use

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to open the doors on the front four carriages only.

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