Shenfield railway station

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Shenfield

Location

Place

Shenfield

Local authority

Brentwood, Essex

Operations

Station code

SNF

Managed by

National Express East Anglia

Platforms in use

Live departures and station information from National Rail

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

2.861 million

2005/06 *

2.908 million

History

Key dates

Opened 1843

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

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Shenfield is a major station on the Great Eastern Main Line from Liverpool Street station in the City of London to places in the East of England. It was first opened by the Eastern Counties Railway on 29 March 1843 on the extension from Brentwood to Colchester. Patronage was low, being in a rural area and so it was closed in 1850, but it reopened as Shenfield & Hutton Junction on 1 January 1887 under the Great Eastern Railway to serve as an interchange with the new Southend line completed two years later. There were three platforms, two Up (London-bound) and one Down (Country-bound). Under the London and North Eastern Railway, two extra tracks for terminating local (suburban) trains opened in 1934, thus giving the five platforms we see today.

It is located in Shenfield in the borough of Brentwood in Essex, England.

The station is served by fast trains on the main line to Liverpool Street and also the stopping services of the Shenfield Metro of which it is the eastern terminus. It is proposed that Crossrail services will terminate here.

The station is 20 miles (32 km) down line from Liverpool Street. Immediately west of the station is Brentwood bank, which descends steeply in the up (London) direction. This bank presented a significant climb to steam trains. There are extensive sidings on the London side of the station just before the start of the descent down the bank.

To the east of the station, the lines for Southend diverge with the down line passing under the main lines to Colchester. West of Shenfield there are four tracks, but to the east these split, two towards Colchester and two towards Southend.

[edit] Service

The Monday-Saturday off-peak service from Shenfield is:

12 trains per hour to London Liverpool Street, of which:
- 4 call at Stratford (to set down) only
- 2 call at Romford and Stratford (to set down)
- 6 call at all stations (Brentwood, Harold Wood, Gidea Park, Romford, Chadwell Heath, Goodmayes, Seven Kings, Ilford, Manor Park, Forest Gate, Maryland and Stratford)

3 tph set-down only to London Liverpool Street

3 tph to Southend Victoria, calling at Billericay, Wickford, Rayleigh, Hockley, Rochford and Prittlewell

1 tph to Southminster, calling at Billericay, Wickford, Battlesbridge, South Woodham Ferrers, North Fambridge, Althorne and Burnham-on-Crouch

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

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

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

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

1 train every two hours (tp2h) to Lowestoft, calling at Chelmsford, 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 Chelmsford, Witham, Marks Tey, Colchester (North), Ipswich, Stowmarket, Bury St Edmunds, Ely, March and Whittlesea

On Sundays this is reduced to:

6 tph to London, of which:
- 2 call at Stratford (to set down) only
- 2 call at Brentwood, Harold Wood, Gidea Park, Romford and Stratford (to set down) only
- 2 call at all stations as per the third layout above

2 tph to Southend, calling at all stations except Prittlewell (which is closed on Sundays)

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

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

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

Preceding station		Following station
Brentwood	National Express East Anglia Shenfield Metro	Terminus
Romford	National Express East Anglia Great Eastern Main Line	Ingatestone
Romford	National Express East Anglia Southend Line and Crouch Valley Line	Billericay
Stratford	Dutchflyer London-Amsterdam	Chelmsford