Wivenhoe railway station

Infobox UK station
name = Wivenhoe


manager = National Express East Anglia
locale = Wivenhoe
borough = Colchester
usage0405 = 0.319
usage0506 = 0.320
usage0607 = 0.330
platforms = 2
start = Infobox Tendring Hundred Railway

Wivenhoe railway station is on the Tendring Hundred Railway (referred to informally as the Clacton line) and serves the small town of Wivenhoe in Essex, England. It is operated by National Express East Anglia. The station has two platforms and a footbridge, and a manned ticket office and waiting room. It is only a short walk from the station to the River Colne at Wivenhoe quay, and the station car park is also the starting point of the Wivenhoe Trail, a cycle track that runs alongside the river into Colchester (about 4 miles).

A few hundred metres east of the station there was a junction for the single-track branch line to Brightlingsea. This branch was opened in 1866 and closed as part of the Beeching cuts in 1964, the tracks lifted and the bridge over Alresford Creek demolished.

ervice Patterns

On Mondays to Saturdays, two trains depart in each direction per hour. In the 'up' (London) direction, one of these trains call at Colchester (North), Marks Tey, Witham, Chelmsford, Shenfield, Romford and Stratford (trains towards London setting down only) before terminating at London Liverpool Street. The other 'up' train calls at Hythe and Colchester Town before terminating at Colchester (North).

In the 'down' (away from London) direction one train calls at Thorpe-le-Soken en route to Clacton-on-Sea. The other train calls at Alresford, Great Bentley, Weeley, Thorpe-le-Soken, Kirby Cross and Frinton-on-Sea before terminating at Walton-on-the-Naze.

On Sundays there is only one train per hour in each direction. The 'up' train calls at Colchester (North), Marks Tey, Witham, Chelmsford, Shenfield and Stratford (where London-bound trains set down) before terminating at Liverpool Street. The 'down' train calls at Alresford, Great Bentley and Thorpe-le-Soken en route to Clacton.

(Colchester Town, Hythe and Weeley are closed on Sundays. Stations on the Walton branch are accessed by an hourly Sunday shuttle from Thorpe-le-Soken.)

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