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Newport Pagnell railway station was a railway station that served
Newport Pagnell Newport Pagnell is a town and civil parish in the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. The Office for National Statistics records Newport Pagnell as part of the Milton Keynes urban area. It is separated from the rest of the urban ...
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Buckinghamshire Buckinghamshire (), abbreviated Bucks, is a ceremonial county in South East England that borders Greater London to the south-east, Berkshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the west, Northamptonshire to the north, Bedfordshire to the north-ea ...
, on the
Wolverton–Newport Pagnell line The Wolverton–Newport Pagnell line was a railway branch line in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom running from Wolverton on the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) (today's West Coast Main Line) to Newport Pagnell. The line fully opened ...
. Opened in 1867 the station consisted of a brick built station building, and extensive goods facilities. The last passenger train ran on 6 September 1964 and the last goods train on 22 May 1967. The station site is now under Shepherd's Close, a modern residential development.


Motive Power Depot

The London and North Western Railway opened a small
motive power depot The motive power depot (MPD) or locomotive depot, or traction maintenance depot (TMD), is the place where locomotives are usually housed, repaired and maintained when not being used. They were originally known as "running sheds", "engine shed ...
at the south side of the line near the station in 1886. This was closed 15 June 1955 and demolished.Roger Griffiths and Paul Smith, The directory of British engine sheds:1 (Oxford Publishing Co., 1999), p.117. .


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Station on Disused Stations

The station and goods yard (marked 'Wharf') on 1952 six-inch-scale O. S. map
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Plan of the station's layout
{{coord, 52.0834, -0.7305, type:railwaystation_region:GB, display=title Disused railway stations in Buckinghamshire Former London and North Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1867 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1964 Beeching closures in England Railway stations in Milton Keynes