Stansted Airport railway station
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Stansted Airport  | |||||
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| General information | |||||
| Location | London Stansted Airport, District of Uttlesford England | ||||
| Grid reference | TL556235 | ||||
| Managed by | Greater Anglia | ||||
| Platforms | 3 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | SSD | ||||
| Classification | DfT category B | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 1991 | ||||
| Original company | British Rail | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2018/19 |  9.774 million | ||||
| Interchange |  26,348 | ||||
| 2019/20 | 8.475 million | ||||
| Interchange | 2,938 | ||||
| 2020/21 | 0.795 million | ||||
| Interchange | 445 | ||||
| 2021/22 | 3.369 million | ||||
| Interchange | 1,479 | ||||
| 2022/23 | 7.906 million | ||||
| Interchange | 2,583 | ||||
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Stansted Airport railway station is on a branch line off the West Anglia Main Line in the East of England and was opened in 1991 to provide a rail link to London Stansted Airport. It is 36 miles 67 chains (59.3 km) down the line from London Liverpool Street station, to which a frequent dedicated service called the Stansted Express operates.
The short branch line was constructed at a cost of £44 million and opened by British Rail to coincide with the completion of the airport's new terminal building.[1]
Layout
[edit]Platforms 1 and 3 run the full length of the station and are used for Stansted Express and Norwich services. The shorter platform number 2 is used for the CrossCountry-operated services to Birmingham New Street.
In 2011 platform 1 was extended to accommodate two trains simultaneously in combinations of up to 16 coaches, and platform 2 was extended to accommodate four-coach trains.
The station is in a concrete box structure that is, unusually, above ground level rather than below ground, being constructed under the terminal building. This is evident at the western end of the platforms which are left open and is a similar design to Wembley Central railway station.
Services
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Services at Stansted Airport are operated by Greater Anglia (including services under the Stansted Express brand) and CrossCountry.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour (tph) is:[2]
- 4 tph to London Liverpool Street via Tottenham Hale, of which:[3]
- 2 tph call at Bishop's Stortford
- 2 tph call at Harlow Town, of which 1 also calls at Stansted Mountfitchet
- 1 tph to Norwich via Cambridge and Ely
- 1 tph to Birmingham New Street via Cambridge, Ely, Peterborough, Leicester and Nuneaton
| Preceding station |  National Rail
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Following station | ||
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| Stansted Mountfitchet, Bishop's Stortford or Harlow Town |
Greater Anglia Stansted Express London Liverpool Street – Stansted Airport |
Terminus | ||
| Audley End | Greater Anglia Norwich – Stansted Airport |
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| Cambridge | CrossCountry Birmingham New Street – Stansted Airport |
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References
[edit]- ^ Blow, Christopher (2005). "6: Taxonomy of rail, bus/coach and air transport interchanges". Transport Terminals and Modal Interchanges (1 ed.). Oxford: Architectural Press. p. 70. ISBN 0-7506-5693-X.
- ^ Table 17, 22, 47 National Rail timetable, May 2020
- ^ "All-day, 15-minute frequency for Stansted Express services reintroduced". Greater Anglia. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
External links
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Media related to Stansted Airport railway station at Wikimedia Commons
- Train times and station information for Stansted Airport railway station from National Rail
- Stansted Airport Trains
- Railway stations in Essex
- DfT Category B stations
- Railway stations opened by British Rail
- Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1991
- Railway stations served by CrossCountry
- London Stansted Airport
- Railway stations served by Greater Anglia
- Airport railway stations in the United Kingdom
- 1991 establishments in England