Knebworth railway station
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Knebworth railway station serves the village of Knebworth
Knebworth
Knebworth is a village and civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England immediately south of Stevenage. The civil parish covers an area between the villages of Datchworth, Woolmer Green, Codicote, Kimpton, Whitwell, St Paul's Walden and Langley, and encompasses the village of Knebworth, the...

 in Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire
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, England
England
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. The station is 25 miles (40 km) north of London Kings Cross on the East Coast Main Line
East Coast Main Line
The East Coast Main Line is a long electrified high-speed railway link between London, Peterborough, Doncaster, Wakefield, Leeds, York, Darlington, Newcastle and Edinburgh...

. Knebworth station is managed and served by First Capital Connect
First Capital Connect
First Capital Connect is a passenger train operating company in England that began operations on the National Rail network on 1 April 2006...

.

Facilities

In 2009 First Capital Connect
First Capital Connect
First Capital Connect is a passenger train operating company in England that began operations on the National Rail network on 1 April 2006...

 installed tactile surfaces to the stations stairways, after it gained funding from the Department for Transport
Department for Transport
In the United Kingdom, the Department for Transport is the government department responsible for the English transport network and a limited number of transport matters in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland which are not devolved...

 as part of its "Access For All" scheme.

Services

From Knebworth there is a half-hourly service southbound to London King's Cross. Northbound there is an hourly service to Cambridge
Cambridge railway station
Cambridge railway station is a railway station serving the city of Cambridge in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located at the end of Station Road, off Hills Road, 1 mile south-east of the city centre...

 and Peterborough
Peterborough railway station
Peterborough railway station serves the city of Peterborough, England. It is located approximately north of London Kings Cross on the East Coast Main Line...

respectively.

Sundays there is an hourly service to both London Kings Cross and Cambridge.

Timetables for Knebworth can be seen and downloaded here.

Ticket Office Opening Times & Station Staffing Hours

Below are the current opening and staffing times for Knebworth, as of 2010.
Ticket Office Hours
Day Opens Closes
Monday to Friday 06:50 13:15
Saturday 08:00 13:45
Sunday - -

Station Staffing Hours
Day From Until
Monday to Friday 06:35 13:35
Saturday 07:45 14:05
Sunday - -

Route

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