It is on the Cambridge Line, 36 miles 47 chains (58.9 km) north of London King's Cross,[1] and is located on the outskirts of Baldock on Station Road.

The station then passed on to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

When sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Network SouthEast until the privatisation of British Railways.

Services at Baldock are operated by Thameslink and Great Northern using Class 387 and 700 EMUs.

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