Kirby Cross railway station

Kirby Cross
Location
Place	Kirby Cross
Local authority	Tendring
Grid reference	TM215207
Operations
Station code	KBX
Managed by	Abellio Greater Anglia
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	45,406
2005/06	37,504
2006/07	39,149
2007/08	39,715
2008/09	44,666
2009/10	41,508
2010/11	42,114
2011/12	42,266
2012/13	43,816
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Kirby Cross from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Kirby Cross railway station serves the village of Kirby Cross in Essex, England. It was opened on 27 July 1866 as part of the Tendring Hundred line which was to link Colchester with Walton-on-the-Naze.^[1]

A PERTIS self-service permit-to-ticket machine is available, located at the entrance to the eastbound platform.

The station has eastbound and westbound platform lines but east and west of the station is single-track.

The station was de-staffed in the 1990s.

Train services

The following services currently call at Kirby Cross:

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Thorpe-le-Soken		Abellio Greater Anglia Walton-on-the-Naze Branch		Frinton-on-Sea

Service patterns

• Monday to Saturday: One train per hour to Colchester and Walton-on-the-Naze.
• Sunday: One train per hour to Thorpe-le-Soken and Walton-on-the-Naze.

Passengers requiring Clacton-on-Sea must change at Thorpe-le-Soken for a connecting service. On Sundays passengers for the Colchester direction must change at Thorpe-le-Soken.

Notes

1. ↑ Johnson, I: Turning Point: The Story of Kirby le Soken, Essex, page 107. Regency Press, 1982.

External links

• Train times and station information for Kirby Cross railway station from National Rail

Coordinates: 51°50′28″N 1°12′54″E / 51.841°N 1.215°E / 51.841; 1.215