Cressing railway station

Cressing
Cressing railway station in 1976
Location
Place	Cressing
Local authority	Braintree
Operations
Station code	CES
Managed by	National Express East Anglia
Number of platforms	1
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	49,308
2005/06 *	40,088
2006/07 *	39,540
2007/08 *	37,561
2008/09 *	30,518
2009/10 *	31,414
National Rail - UK railway stations
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Cressing from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal

View SE, towards Witham in 1984

Cressing railway station serves the villages of Cressing and Black Notley in Essex, England. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by National Express East Anglia. It is situated on the Braintree Branch Line.

Service Patterns

A train departs hourly in each direction. Trains towards Braintree(in the 'down' direction) call at every stop (Braintree Freeport and Braintree). Most trains in the up (towards London) direction on Mondays to Saturdays run to London Liverpool Street, but on Sundays passengers must change at Witham. Trains towards London generally call at White Notley, Witham, Hatfield Peverel, Chelmsford, Ingatestone, Shenfield and Stratford along the way. All services are scheduled to be operated by Class 321 electric multiple units, but occasionally Class 360 or Class 315 EMUs replace them.

Originally the Maldon, Witham and Braintree Railway, the line opened on 2 October 1848, double tracked throughout until the Crimean War. Cressing is on the section from Witham to Braintree. This station was renamed Cressing from Bulford in February 1911. It is suggested that the large crossing gates were because Cressing had a passing loop until after World War I, and retained the loop for freight purposes until freight closure in 1964. The station was owned by the Great Eastern Railway (GER) from 1862 to 1923, but as the building does not show GER architectural canopy support features, it is likely that it pre-dates GER. Although there doesn't appear to be any obvious evidence, (as in the case of Maldon East Station which proudly displays MWB on the gulleys at the top of its downpipes), that it was built when the line opened, that is still quite possible and if so would make it the only surviving Maldon, Witham and Braintree Railway structure on this railway.

External links

• Train times and station information for Cressing railway station from National Rail
• More pictures on Flickr

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
White Notley		National Express East Anglia Braintree Branch Line		Braintree Freeport

Coordinates: 51°51′07″N 0°34′41″E / 51.852°N 0.578°E / 51.852; 0.578