Harlow Town railway station

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Harlow Town
Location
Place	Harlow
Local authority	Harlow
Operations
Station code	HWN
Managed by	National Express East Anglia
Platforms in use	4
Live departures and station information from National Rail
Annual Rail Passenger Usage
2004/05 *	1.666 million
2005/06 *	1.627 million
History
Key dates	Opened 1842
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Harlow Town from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Harlow Town railway station serves the town of Harlow in Essex, England. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by National Express East Anglia.

[edit] History

The station was opened in 1842 as Burnt Mill railway station, to serve the small village of the same name. On July 13, 1960 the station was renamed Harlow Town and enlarged to serve the post-war new town of Harlow. The station itself is now a Grade II listed structure which has caused problems in conforming with the DDA.

[edit] Services

All services at the station are operated by the rail company National Express East Anglia. The typical Monday-Saturday off-peak service is:

• 4 trains per hour (tph) to London Liverpool Street, of which:
  • 2 call at Tottenham Hale only, taking 33 minutes.
  • 1 calls at Broxbourne, Cheshunt and Tottenham Hale, taking 34 minutes.
  • 1 calls at Roydon, Broxbourne, Cheshunt and Tottenham Hale, taking 36 minutes.
• 1 tph to Stratford, calling at Roydon, Broxbourne, Cheshunt, Enfield Lock, Northumberland Park and Tottenham Hale, taking 43 minutes.

• 3 tph to Stansted Airport, of which:
  • 2 run non stop, taking 21 minutes.
  • 1 calls at Harlow Mill, Sawbridgeworth, Bishop's Stortford and Stansted Mountfitchet, taking 26 minutes.
• 2 tph to Cambridge, of which:
  • 1 calls at Sawbridgeworth, Bishop's Stortford, Audley End and Whittlesford Parkway, taking 44 minutes.
  • 1 calls at Harlow Mill, Sawbridgeworth, Bishop's Stortford, Stansted Mountfitchet, Elsenham, Newport (Essex), Audley End, Great Chesterford and Whittlesford Parkway, and Shelford taking 50 minutes.

On Sundays this becomes:

• 3 tph to London Liverpool Street, of which:
  • 2 call at Tottenham Hale as above, taking 32 minutes.
  • 1 calls at all stations as per the second layout above, taking 36 minutes.
• 1 tph to Stratford, calling at all stations until Cheshunt, then Waltham Cross, Enfield Lock, Brimsdown, Ponders End and Tottenham Hale*, taking 46 minutes. (*NB It is 12 minutes faster to take the subsequent fast train to reach Tottenham Hale.)

• 2 tph to Stansted Airport non-stop, taking 19 minutes.
• 2 tph to Cambridge, of which:
  • 1 calls at Sawbridgeworth, Bishop's Stortford, Audley End and Whittlesford Parkway, taking 44 minutes.
  • 1 calls at all stations as per the second layout above, then Shelford (after Whittlesford Parkway), taking 52 minutes.

[edit] External links

• Train times and station information for Harlow Town railway station from National Rail
• Images of England entry

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Roydon		National Express East Anglia West Anglia Main Line		Harlow Mill
Tottenham Hale		National Express East Anglia Stansted Express		Stansted Airport

West Anglia

Main Line Cambridge Shelford Whittlesford Parkway Great Chesterford Audley End Newport Elsenham Stansted Mountfitchet Bishop's Stortford Sawbridgeworth Harlow Mill Harlow Town Roydon Broxbourne Cheshunt Tottenham Hale Liverpool Street