Beeston London St Pancras Train

Beeston railway station, operated by East Midlands Trains, serves the town of Beeston in Nottinghamshire, England. The station lies on the Midland Main Line which connects London St. Pancras station to the northern city of Sheffield via Luton, Bedford, Kettering, Leicester, East Midlands Parkway, Derby/Nottingham and Chesterfield. The station has a staffed ticket office but passengers should note that it is not open late into the evening. Passengers are able to collect tickets purchased in advance (for example, on the internet) from one of the ticket machines located in the station.

There are no WC or ATM facilities at the station although there is a cafe.

The railway station is approximately 200 km from London and has two platforms. Platform 1 caters for trains travelling north to Nottingham and Lincoln. Platform 2 is for southbound trains travelling towards London, Leicester, Birmingham and Derby. Access to the platforms is either via steps from Station Road bridge or via a ramp from Station Road for Platform 1 or Technology Drive for Platform 2.

Services from the station are operated by East Midlands Trains and CrossCountry.

Parking is available at the station for approximately 20 vehicles and is open 24 hours a day.

Located in central London, London St Pancras railway station offers passengers destinations including Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, Sheffield, Leeds, Chatham, Faversham, Ashford International, Canterbury West, Folkestone, Dover, Luton and Bedford. International destinations available are Paris, Brussels and Lille.

London St Pancras railway station is operated by Network Rail and is the terminus for East Midlands Trains services from London to Derby, Leicester, Nottingham, Sheffield, and smaller towns en route, and for Eurostar's high speed trains to Paris, Brussels and Lille. First Capital Connect trains on the cross-London Thameslink route call at platforms beneath the main station, south to Gatwick Airport and Brighton and north to Luton Airport Parkway for Luton Airport and Bedford. It is also the terminus for high speed domestic services to Kent, run by Southeastern.

Facilities at the station include ATM's, bureau de change, First Class Lounge, pay phones, cafes and shops, toilets and baby changing facilities. Parking is available at the station for 322 vehicles and is open 24 hours a day.

The recent redeveloped terminus has been described by the travel writer Simon Calder as "the world's most wonderful railway station". On the station's upper level, above the Arcade concourse, stands a bronze statue of the former Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman, gazing in apparent wonder at the Barlow roof and at the south end of the upper level, a 9-metre high bronze statue named The Meeting Place stands beneath the station clock.