Audley End railway station
Audley End  | |
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Audley End railway station in July 2012 | |
| Location | |
| Place | Wendens Ambo |
| Local authority | District of Uttlesford |
| Coordinates | 52°00′16″N 0°12′26″E / 52.0045°N 0.2073°ECoordinates: 52°00′16″N 0°12′26″E / 52.0045°N 0.2073°E |
| Grid reference | TL516363 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | AUD |
| Managed by | Abellio Greater Anglia |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | D |
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Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries | |
| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2004/05 | 0.751 million |
| 2005/06 |
 0.721 million |
| 2006/07 |
 0.729 million |
| 2007/08 |
0.774 million |
| 2008/09 |
0.766 million |
| 2009/10 |
0.723 million |
| 2010/11 |
0.747 million |
| 2011/12 |
0.751 million |
| - Interchange | 5,392 |
| 2012/13 |
0.811 million |
| - Interchange |
4,986 |
| 2013/14 |
0.839 million |
| - Interchange |
5,243 |
| 2014/15 |
0.879 million |
| - Interchange |
6,887 |
| History | |
| 30 July 1845 | Station opens as Wenden |
| 1 November 1848 | Name changed to Audley End |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Audley End from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
| UK Railways portal | |
Audley End railway station serves the village of Wendens Ambo and the town of Saffron Walden. The station is named after the manor of Audley End in Essex, England. There was a platform at the east end of the station (52°00′15″N 0°12′28″E / 52.0043°N 0.2077°E) for the branch line to Saffron Walden that was closed in 1964.
History
The station was opened by the Eastern Counties Railway, which was absorbed into the Great Eastern Railway, and became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the grouping of 1923. The station passed on to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.
The station was served by Network SouthEast when BR sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, until it was privatised.
Audley End station's name was changed on signs to Audley End for Saffron Walden in 2012. Sir Alan Haselhurst, MP for Saffron Walden unveiled the re-branded signs on Friday 25 May.[1]
Services
The station has an off-peak service of two trains per hour southbound to London Liverpool Street and northbound to Cambridge. One of these is a stopping train calling at most intermediate stations in either direction (London-bound trains run fast south of Cheshunt calling only at Tottenham Hale before terminating at Liverpool Street), whilst the other is a semi-fast service calling only at Bishops Stortford, Harlow Town, Broxbourne, Cheshunt and Tottenham Hale southbound and Whittlesford Parkway northbound.[2] Additional services call at peak times. The hourly CrossCountry service between Stansted Airport and Birmingham New Street via Peterborough and Leicester stops here and is supplemented by a roughly hourly Greater Anglia service running between Cambridge and Stansted Airport.
On Sundays there are two trains each hour to Cambridge (one express and one all stations) plus the hourly through service to Birmingham northbound and two trains each hour to Liverpool Street (one semi-fast and one stopping) and one train per hour to Stansted Airport (express).
| Preceding station | National Rail |
Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newport | Abellio Greater Anglia West Anglia Main Line Slow |
Great Chesterford | ||
| Bishops Stortford or Tottenham Hale |
Abellio Greater Anglia West Anglia Main Line Liverpool Street-King's Lynn/Ely (peak hours only) & Semi-Fast |
Whittlesford Parkway | ||
| Stansted Airport | Abellio Greater Anglia Stansted Airport/Bishops Stortford-Cambridge |
Whittlesford Parkway or Cambridge | ||
| Stansted Airport | CrossCountry Birmingham - Stansted Airport |
Cambridge | ||
| Disused railways | ||||
| Saffron Walden | Great Eastern Railway Saffron Walden Railway |
Terminus | ||
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.
- Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137.
- Sub Brit page about Saffron Walden Platform
- Station on navigable O.S. map
- ↑ http://www.railway-centre.com/latest-news-may-2012.html
- ↑ GB National Rail Timetable December 2013 to May 2014, Table 22