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The Braintree Branch Line is a branch line from Witham to Braintree in Essex, England. The line diverges from the Great Eastern Main Line at Witham and is single track throughout. The route was electrified at 25 kV AC overhead in 1977.
Passenger services are currently operated by National Express East Anglia. They replaced the previous operator, First Great Eastern, on 1 April 2004, when all the operators in East Anglia were merged into one new franchise. Services are formed using Class 321 electrical multiple units.
The line once continued further west, passing the southern perimeter of what is now Stansted Airport and meeting the West Anglia Main Line at Bishop's Stortford. The trackbed is still largely intact, and there have been various proposals to either reopen the line or use it as a guided busway.
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