Dunstable North railway station was authorised from 16 December 1991. The station has been demolished and is now the site of offices of Central Bedfordshire Council (previously the headquarters of South Bedfordshire District Council). What remains of the line to the west has become part of the Sewell greenway from French's Avenue to just short of . The route is part of National Cycle Network route 6 and includes a bridge over the A505. Dunstable North railway station Dunstable North was a railway station on the London and North Western Railway's branch line from Leighton Buzzard which served Dunstable in Bedfordshire from 1848 to
Leighton Buzzard Light Railway no longer transport sand by roads, so a private industrial railway was proposed to take the traffic. Leighton Buzzard Light Railway opened on Thursday 20 November 1919, linking the sand quarries (Double Arches at the far end of the line) with the mainline railway south of the town at Grovebury sidings. The line was built using surplus equipment from the War Department Light Railways. The railway was built to a gauge of and laid using mostly rail. The line opened using steam traction by two Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0 side tank steam locomotives. These proved inappropriate for the tightly-curved line and