Witham railway station

Infobox UK station
name = Witham


manager = National Express East Anglia
locale = Witham
borough = Braintree, Essex
code = WTM
usage0405 = 2.261
usage0506 = 2.307
usage0607 = 2.343
platforms = 4
start =

Witham railway station is a railway station serving the town of Witham in Essex. The station is located on the Great Eastern Main Line and is also the junction of the Witham-Braintree line. The branch junction faces west (towards London), thus permitting through running between London and Braintree.

The station is located approximately half a mile to the north of the town centre.

The station is served by National Express East Anglia. All off-peak services are operated by Class 321 and Class 360 electrical multiple units for Braintree, Colchester, Clacton and Harwich services and British Rail Class 170 Diesel multiple units for Ipswich, Lowestoft and Peterborough services

tation layout

Platform 1 is rarely used except for peak hour services starting from or terminating at the station. (This platform used to be used by trains serving the now dismantled branch line to Maldon.) Platform 2 is for services to London. Platform 3 is for services to Colchester and beyond. Platform 4 is the Braintree platform, where services start from or terminate or run to and from London.

The station car park is situated next to the station, but with no direct connection to it. To access the car park from the station passengers must exit onto the street and take a substantial walk to the road bridge across the tracks situated just past the western end of the station, over the bridge and then down a residential road the other side of the tracks. Station users have been campaigning for a remedy to this issue for many years. In November 2001 funding was announced to build a direct footbridge from the station to the car park, [http://www.dft.gov.uk/press/releases/sra/2001/2001b/buildingabetterrailwaysrapro1249. Building A Better Railway: SRA Provides £455,000 for Witham Interchange. Retrieved 2008-07-15.] but this was subsequently withdrawn indefinitely in financial cutbacks following the collapse of Railtrack. Reports of a new funding package for a footbridge emerged in 2008. [http://www.thisistotalessex.co.uk/commuterwatch/Footbridge-hopes-high/article-181981-detail/article.html. Footbridge hopes high. Retrieved on 2008-07-15.]

ervice Patterns

The typical Monday-Saturday off-peak service from Witham is:

*4 trains per hour (tph) to London Liverpool Street, of which:
**1 calls at Chelmsford and Shenfield (to set down only)
**1 calls at Chelmsford, Shenfield and Stratford (to set down only)
**1 calls at Chelmsford, Shenfield, Romford and Stratford (to set down only)
**1 calls at Hatfield Peverel, Chelmsford, Ingatestone, Shenfield and Stratford (to set down only)
*1 tph to Braintree, calling at White Notley, Cressing and Braintree Freeport
*1tph to Clacton-on-Sea, calling at Colchester (North), Wivenhoe and Thorpe-le-Soken
*1tph to Harwich Town, calling at Kelvedon, Marks Tey, Colchester (North), Manningtree, Mistley, Wrabness, Harwich International and Dovercourt
*1 train per two hours (tp2h) to Lowestoft, calling at 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 Marks Tey, Colchester (North), Ipswich, Stowmarket, Bury St Edmunds, Ely, March and Whittlesea

On Sundays this is reduced to:
*2 tph to London, of which:
**1 calls at Chelmsford, Shenfield and Stratford (to set down only)
**1 calls at Hatfield Peverel, Chelmsford, Ingatestone, Shenfield and Stratford (to set down only)
*1 tph to Braintree, as above
*1 tph to Clacton, calling at Marks Tey, Colchester (North), Wivenhoe, Alresford, Great Bentley and Thorpe-le-Soken
*1 tph to Ipswich, calling at stations as per the Harwich service shown above until Manningtree

1st September 1905

Witham railway station was the scene of a serious accident on Saturday 1st September 1905. The 09:27 London Liverpool Street to Cromer 14 carriage express derailed whilst travelling through the station at speed. 10 passengers and a Luggage Porter were killed when several of the carriages somersaulted onto the platforms causing considerable damage to the rolling stock and the station. More than 50 passengers were seriously injured. This remains to this day the worst single loss of life in a railway accident in Essex.

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