Chelmsford railway station

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Chelmsford

Location

Place

Chelmsford

Local authority

Borough of Chelmsford, Essex

Operations

Station code

CHM

Managed by

National Express East Anglia

Platforms in use

Live departures and station information from National Rail

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

6.698 million

2005/06 *

6.801 million

History

Key dates

Opened 1842

History

1985

Rebuilt

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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Chelmsford from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.

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Chelmsford railway station is a railway station serving the town of Chelmsford in Essex. The station is located on the Great Eastern Main Line.

The station is served by National Express East Anglia.

Semi-fast services are operated by Class 321 or Class 360 electrical multiple units. Mainline services are operated by Class 90 electric locomotives and Mark 3 coaching stock. While the Peterborough & Lowestoft services are operated by Class 170 Turbostar diesel multiple units.

Services are operated between London Liverpool Street and Ipswich, Clacton, Harwich, Braintree,Norwich, Peterborough or Lowestoft.

The railway at this point is elevated on a viaduct, so the platforms are above street level. It is the busiest station that is completely non-terminus outside of London in the UK.^{[citation needed]}

1 History
2 Service patterns
3 Gallery
4 External links
5 Notes

[edit] History

The Eastern Counties Railway arrived in 1842, but due to the geography of the town, an 18-arch viaduct had to be built across what is now the town park. The station was built on a viaduct in its current location, with a 3-storey frontage. The present station building dates from a rebuild in 1985.

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[edit] Service patterns

The typical Monday-Saturday off-peak service consists of:

5 trains per hour (tph) to London Liverpool Street, of which:
- 1 calls only at Shenfield (to set down)
- 1 calls only at Stratford (to set down)
- 1 calls at Shenfield and Stratford (to set down)
- 1 calls at Shenfield, Romford and Stratford (to set down)
- 1 calls at Ingatestone, Shenfield and Stratford

1 tph to Braintree, calling at Hatfield Peverel, Witham, White Notley, Cressing and Braintree Freeport

1 tph to Clacton-on-Sea, calling at Witham, Colchester (North), Wivenhoe and Thorpe-le-Soken

1 tph to Harwich Town, calling at Witham, Kelvedon, Marks Tey, Colchester (North), Manningtree, Mistley, Wrabness, Harwich International and Dovercourt

1 tph to Norwich, calling at Colchester (North), Manningtree, Ipswich, Stowmarket and Diss

1 train every two hours (tp2h) to Lowestoft, calling at Witham, Marks Tey, Colchester (North), Ipswich, Westerfield, Woodbridge, Melton, Wickham Market, Saxmundham, Darsham, Halesworth, Brampton (Suffolk), Beccles and Oulton Broad South

1 tp2h to Peterborough, calling at Witham, Marks Tey, Colchester (North), Ipswich, Stowmarket, Bury St. Edmunds, Ely, March and Whittlesea

On Sundays this becomes:

2 tph to London Liverpool Street, of which:
- 1 calls only at Shenfield and Stratford (to set down)
- 1 calls at Ingatestone, Shenfield and Stratford (to set down)

1 tph to Clacton, calling at Witham, Marks Tey, Colchester (North), Wivenhoe, Alresford, Great Bentley and Thorpe-le-Soken

1 tph to Ipswich, calling at Hatfield Peverel, Witham, Kelvedon, Marks Tey, Colchester (North) and Manningtree

[edit] Gallery

The eastern approach to the station

The 18-arch Chelmsford Viaduct

[edit] External links

Train times and station information for Chelmsford railway station from National Rail

Preceding station		Following station
London Liverpool Street	National Express East Anglia National Express East Anglia Intercity	Colchester (North)
Ingatestone	National Express East Anglia Great Eastern Main Line	Hatfield Peverel
Shenfield	Dutchflyer London-Amsterdam	Witham