Alresford (Essex) railway station

Alresford
Location
Place	Alresford
Local authority	Tendring
Grid reference	TM064215
Operations
Station code	ALR
Managed by	Abellio Greater Anglia
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	E
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	49,386
2005/06	45,144
2006/07	48,966
2007/08	46,833
2008/09	50,888
2009/10	56,012
2010/11	62,516
2011/12	58,734
2012/13	57,342
2013/14	57,480
2014/15	62,098
History
8 January 1866	Opened
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Alresford from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Alresford railway station is on the Sunshine Coast Line, a branch of the Great Eastern Main Line, in the East of England, serving the village of Alresford, Essex. It is 57 miles 63 chains (93.0 km) down-line from London Liverpool Street^[1] and is situated between Wivenhoe to the west and Great Bentley to the east. Its three-letter station code is ARL.

The station was opened by the Tendring Hundred Railway, a subsidiary of the Great Eastern Railway, in 1866. It is currently operated by Abellio Greater Anglia, which also operates all trains serving the station.

History

Opened in 1866 by the Tendring Hundred Railway, then owned by the Great Eastern Railway, Alresford station later became part of the London and North Eastern Railway following the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the Eastern Region of British Railways upon nationalisation in 1948.

When sectorisation was introduced, the station was served by Network SouthEast until the privatisation of British Rail.

As of 2006, the original station house is derelict but is available to let. Tickets are sold from a small cabin close to Station Road. Until the level crossing gates were replaced with automatic barriers as part of an upgrade of the line in 2008 and 2009,^[2] the ticket clerk was also responsible for moving the level crossing gates each time a train passed.

Prior to electrification of the line, the ticket clerk operated the level crossing gates, home and distant signals on both the "up" (London-bound) and "down" (country-bound) lines, his own level crossing gate lock and the one for the level crossing a short distance down the line, at all times that the signal box was unmanned. Edward Burbage fulfilled this duty for nearly 50 years.

Services

The typical service pattern is:

At peak times there are some additional services between Liverpool Street and Clacton-on-Sea.

References

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687. 
• Station on navigable O.S. map

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Alresford (Essex) railway station.

• Train times and station information for Alresford (Essex) railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Wivenhoe		Abellio Greater Anglia Sunshine Coast Line		Great Bentley
Historical railways
Wivenhoe Line and station open		Great Eastern Railway Tendring Hundred Extension Railway		Thorington Line open, station closed

Coordinates: 51°51′14″N 0°59′49″E / 51.85389°N 0.99694°E / 51.85389; 0.99694