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Brookmans Park railway station serves the village of Brookmans Park in Hertfordshire, England. The station is located 14 mi north of London Kings Cross on the East Coast Main Line, on the stretch between Finsbury Park and Hatfield.

History
The station was opened by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) on 19 July 1926.

During World War II, the station played a small part in the signing of the Anglo-Soviet Treaty. On 21 May 1942, LNER Class A4 locomotive number 4495 Golden Fleece brought Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov to the station, where he was met by his British counterpart Anthony Eden. The pair and their staff were then driven to the Chequers estate, where the treaty was negotiated.

Facilities
The station is only staffed part-time, with the ticket office being open 06:5010:00, Monday to Friday. Customer help points are available for assistance out of hours. Other facilities include passenger information displays and waiting shelters. Oyster Cards are not valid at the station. However, contactless bank cards may be used.

Station layout
The station has four platforms in total, consisting of two island platforms; only platforms 1 and 4, facing the route's slow lines, are used regularly. Both platforms are accessible only via a footbridge, with no step-free access available. A station car park with 69 spaces parallels the island platforms to the east. The station building (an LNER survivor) at the north-west of the station serves as the part-time ticket office.

Services
There is a basic weekday off-peak service of 3tph in both directions, southbound to Moorgate and northbound to Welwyn Garden City, dropping to every 30 minutes at weekends. Late evening and weekend services used to run to and from Kings Cross rather than using the Northern City Line, but from 13 December 2015 Great Northern introduced a weekend service on the line and extended evening hours until the end of service.