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Milton Keynes Central
All photographs of this location in date order.
![This bland and faceless office block includes a station entrance at the centre of its ground floor. At least the bulding now looks no worse then when it was built in the early 1980's. Hope that chap at the bus stop isn't waiting for a W13 to Henlow....<br><br>[Ken Strachan 05/02/2010]](/images/27000/27917.jpg "Milton Keynes Central")
![Both the class 350, and 'Stone and Webster House' (the mirror glass block in the background, above the entrance to Milton Keynes station) are acquired tastes. The 350 is about to set off for London on 23 August.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 23/08/2010]](/images/30000/30628.jpg "Milton Keynes Central")
![<I>Stand well back....</I> A down Pendolino runs through Milton Keynes at speed on 23 August 2010.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 23/08/2010]](/images/31000/31603.jpg "Milton Keynes Central")
![<I>Shiver me timbers!</I> A Southbound 350 seen through one of the unusual 'porthole' windows on the footbridge at Milton Keynes on 27 August.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 27/08/2010]](/images/30000/30669.jpg "Milton Keynes Central")
![Road vs. rail: a down Pendolino forms an orderly queue for platform 6 at Milton Keynes as road traffic (more vehicles, less passengers) passes on the A5. View looks North on 4 February.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 04/02/2011]](/images/32000/32772.jpg "Milton Keynes Central")
![90041 in old Railfreight livery heads the Virgin loco-hauled set North into Milton Keynes platform 6 on 11 February 2011, at about 3.15pm. By 5.05pm the same set was seen heading South at Rugby - good utilization.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 11/02/2011]](/images/33000/33480.jpg "Milton Keynes Central")
![The recently installed South bay at Milton Keynes is platform 2a. It is rarely used, so here's the best shot I could get, with an up London train passing from platform 1<br><br>[Ken Strachan 11/02/2011]](/images/33000/33510.jpg "Milton Keynes Central")
![Southern Railway services now run as far North as Milton Keynes. This would never have done in the old SR days, but at that time Milton Keynes was a small village between Bletchley and Wolverton, and well off the main line. This is the 15.13 to East Croydon on 11 February 2011.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 11/02/2011]](/images/33000/33792.jpg "Milton Keynes Central")
![90049 shows off the new Freightliner livery to dramatic effect as it heads North through Milton Keynes on 11 February with a container train.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 11/02/2011]](/images/34000/34040.jpg "Milton Keynes Central")
![No less than 12 cars of class 325 stock run North through Milton Keynes bright and early on 2nd September.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 02/09/2011]](/images/35000/35686.jpg "Milton Keynes Central")
![The Pendolino, the 350, and the three young ladies appear to be competing as to who can be most colourful. View South along platform 5 at Milton Keynes Central on 2 September 2011.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 02/09/2011]](/images/35000/35959.jpg "Milton Keynes Central")
![Patience is a virtue - a 12-car assembly of 350's forming a commuter service to London Euston awaits the off at Milton Keynes Central.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 11/11/2011]](/images/36000/36685.jpg "Milton Keynes Central")
![Milton Keynes can look surprisingly old-fashioned early in the morning, with more than a hint of <I>'The Ladykillers'</I> in the staircase on the right. View south from the station footbridge on 18th November 2011.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 18/11/2011]](/images/37000/37243.jpg "Milton Keynes Central")
![And they're off! The 07.14 to Euston is ready to leave Milton Keynes Central on 25 November 2011. I had momentarily fallen asleep at my seat - good job I woke up!<br><br>[Ken Strachan 25/11/2011]](/images/37000/37888.jpg "Milton Keynes Central")
![The 19.15 Southern Trains Cross-London service to Clapham Junction waits to depart from platform 2a at Milton Keynes Central on 7 March 2012. The train runs via the West London Line and has a journey time of 1 hour 18 minutes. [See image 4945]<br><br>[Ken Strachan 07/03/2012]](/images/38000/38263.jpg "Milton Keynes Central")
![350.232 seems to have a smile on its face, courtesy of the setting sun, as it arrives at Milton Keynes Central with the 18.32 service to Birmingham New Street. <br><br>[Ken Strachan 29/03/2012]](/images/39000/39119.jpg "Milton Keynes Central")
![You don't often see freight at MKC in the morning. But withdrawal of my usual bus service has given me more time on the platforms awaiting an alternative. So here is 90044 heading North with boxes (GB) or cans (US) at about 7.30 on 25 May, while Southbound commuters wait for the next up service.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 25/05/2012]](/images/39000/39273.jpg "Milton Keynes Central")
![It's not every day that you see blood and custard and mirror glass together. Scene at Milton Keynes Central on 25 May 2012. The railtour is the UK Railtours 'Snowdonian'; the view is South-East from the footbridge.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 25/05/2012]](/images/42000/42294.jpg "Milton Keynes Central")
![But for that yellow line, and the label on the coach, it could be 1964. Preserved 86259 <I>Les Ross</I>, in original Electric Blue, takes the Railway Touring Company 'Cumbrian Mountain Express' north and away from London at Milton Keynes on 18 June, at a time when several million commuters are heading the other way.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 14/06/2012]](/images/39000/39362.jpg "Milton Keynes Central")
![What comes down must go up. The 350 in platform 2 (left) will form a train to Euston, while its sister unit has just left from platform 1 for the same destination. Southern Trains 377203 is in platform 2a [see image 38263], and will form the 18.13 to Selhurst.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 14/06/2012]](/images/39000/39705.jpg "Milton Keynes Central")
![The stock for the 15.13 to Selhurst (377.202 leading) arrives in platform 2a at Milton Keynes Central in this colourful scene captured on 28th June 2012.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 28/06/2012]](/images/39000/39466.jpg "Milton Keynes Central")
![Major improvements to the Milton Keynes station forecourt seen on 12 July 2012. Buses used to be kept to the far side of the line of flagpoles in the background. The shelters for bus and taxi passengers are also welcome - this area has always been rather windswept.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 12/07/2012]](/images/39000/39642.jpg "Milton Keynes Central")
![No, I'm sorry, they're still not growing on me. 70019 is now a regular performer on this section of the WCML, as is 70007. 019 hauls containers North through Milton Keynes Central on 19th July, while 350253, being the leading unit of the 17.41 to Euston, looks on.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 19/07/2012]](/images/39000/39693.jpg "Milton Keynes Central")
![The latest thing in transport integration is this 2-level bike park outside Milton Keynes station. Well, I hadn't seen one before.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 11/09/2012]](/images/40000/40960.jpg "Milton Keynes Central")
![The seeds of promise - this notice about Christmas engineering works at Bletchley in December 2012 is notable for its mention of the restoration of the link to Oxford [see image 27801]. Such a shame it wasn't done when MK was first built.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 18/12/2012]](/images/41000/41662.jpg "Milton Keynes Central")
![Passengers familiar with operations at MKC will know that many Pendolinos and Voyagers pass through platform 6 - plus the occasional mail train [see image 35686]. But now that London Midland have tuned up their 350's for 110mph running, they are mixing it with Virgin trains. This unit got me to Nuneaton in 35 minutes.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 08/02/2013]](/images/42000/42063.jpg "Milton Keynes Central")
![<I>Just a quick wash and we'll be off...</I> A London [Euston] bound Virgin Voyager about to depart from Milton Keynes Central on 8 March 2014.<br><br>[John Steven 08/03/2014]](/images/46000/46577.jpg "Milton Keynes Central")
![View from the footbridge at Milton Keynes Central on 28 April 2014. The bridge is being refurbished and made slightly narrower internally by wall cladding - hence what appears to be a giant pair of binoculars. [Ref query 6619]<br><br>[Ken Strachan 28/04/2014]](/images/47000/47209.jpg "Milton Keynes Central")
![The 1300 London Euston - Manchester Piccadilly Virgin Pendolino service runs north through a wet Milton Keynes Central at speed on 3 January 2015.<br><br>[John Steven 03/01/2015]](/images/49000/49949.jpg "Milton Keynes Central")
![Pendolino 390103 in WW1 Remembrance livery, London bound at Milton Keynes Central on 12 April 2015.<br><br>[John Steven 12/04/2015]](/images/50000/50995.jpg "Milton Keynes Central")
![The sparse - six trains a week - service from MKC to Adderley Park may make you feel like a Minor Traveller [see image 42528].<br><br>[Ken Strachan 23/12/2016]](/images/57000/57611.jpg "Milton Keynes Central")
![A Voyager at MK Central heading for London - there seemed to be such a service every two minutes. Something to do with Christmas, perhaps. [see image 46577]<br><br>[Ken Strachan 23/12/2016]](/images/58000/58270.jpg "Milton Keynes Central")
![A Southern service to East Croydon waits to start its journey at Milton Keynes Central on 16 June 2017.<br><br>[John McIntyre 16/06/2017]](/images/59000/59771.jpg "Milton Keynes Central")
