Willington railway station (Bedfordshire)

[3] Prior to the station's opening, there had been a siding on the site from September 1896 to handle local vegetable traffic, together with a weighing machine.

[5] The initial station was a very basic single platform structure with wooden weatherboarded outbuildings typical of the LNWR's construction techniques.

[8] The long passing loop was made yet longer on 3 August 1916 to facilitate the increased wartime traffic on the line.

In July 2006, Bedfordshire County Council approved the construction of the Bedford Rowing Lake for the purposes of the 2012 Olympic Games, a 2,300m lake which was proposed to straddle the railway trackbed, taking a 120-metre section out of the route and making any reinstatement as had been proposed by the East West Rail Consortium far more expensive.

[13][14] The Labour government was criticised for its lack of support for the East West Rail Project and failure to safeguard the trackbed.