Alresford (Essex) railway station

For the Station on the Mid Hants Railway, see Alresford (Hampshire) railway station.

Alresford (Essex)
Alresford railway station
Location
Place	Alresford
Local authority	Tendring
Operations
Station code	ALR
Managed by	Greater Anglia
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information 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
History
8 January 1866	Station opens
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Alresford (Essex) from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.

Alresford railway station and serves the village of Alresford, Essex, England. The station is on the Tendring Hundred Railway (also known as the Sunshine Coast Line) 12 km (7½ miles) south east of Colchester. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Greater Anglia.

History

Opened by the Tendring Hundred Railway, then by the Great Eastern Railway, it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

When Sectorisation was introduced, the station was served by Network SouthEast until the Privatisation of British Railways.

As of February 2006, the original station house is almost 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 to automatic barriers as part of the upgrade of the line in 2008-2009, the ticket clerk was also responsible for moving the level crossing gates each time a train passes.

Prior to electrification of the line, the ticket clerk operated the level crossing gates, home and distant signals on both the up and down 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.

Train services

The following services currently call at Alresford:

Operator	Route	Material	Frequency	Notes
Greater Anglia	London Liverpool Street - Stratford - Shenfield - Chelmsford - Witham - Colchester - Wivenhoe - Thorpe-le-Soken - Clacton-on-Sea	Class 321, Class 360	1x per hour	Sundays only
Greater Anglia	Colchester - Colchester Town - Hythe - Wivenhoe - Alresford - Great Bentley - Weeley - Thorpe-le-Soken - Kirby Cross - Frinton-on-Sea - Walton-on-the-Naze	Class 321	1x per hour	Not Sundays

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

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

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