Platforms one and two at Wolverton station remain the down

and up fast lines respectively and today see very view stopping services with even access to the platforms denied by sliding barriers that remain padlocked. Back in 1980 the situation was different on so many levels. The platforms are fully open and accessible with an up stopping service is due judging by the number of passengers mingling about in their summer clothes. Today, Pendolinos pass through these platforms with incredible frequency making stoppers impossible to path. Also featuring in this photograph are Wolverton's former station buildings. These survived, in various forms, until 1992 with just the wooden footbridge remaining to the end. All have been replaced by a faceless and characterless station with very few facilities but at least the newly constructed station building represents a bit of an improvement over what BR first built to replace the LN&WR structure.