Witham railway station

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Witham
Location
Place	Witham
Local authority	Braintree, Essex
Operations
Station code	WTM
Managed by	National Express East Anglia
Platforms in use	4
Live departures and station information from National Rail
Annual Rail Passenger Usage
2004/05 *	2.261 million
2005/06 *	2.307 million
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Witham from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Witham railway station is a railway station serving the town of Witham in Essex. The station is located on the Great Eastern Main Line and is also the junction of the Witham-Braintree line. The branch junction faces west (towards London), thus permitting through running between London and Braintree.

The station is served by National Express East Anglia. All off peak services are operated by Class 321 and Class 360 electrical multiple units for Braintree, Colchester, Clacton and Harwich services and British Rail Class 170 Diesel multiple units for Ipswich, Lowestoft and Peterborough services

Platform 1 is rarely used except for peak hour services starting from or terminating at the station

Platform 2 is for services to London

Platform 3 is for services to Colchester and beyond

Platform 4 is the Braintree platform, where services start from or terminate or run to and from London

[edit] Service Patterns

The typical Monday-Saturday off-peak service from Witham is:

• 4 trains per hour (tph) to London Liverpool Street, of which:
  • 1 calls at Chelmsford and Shenfield (to set down only)
  • 1 calls at Chelmsford, Shenfield and Stratford (to set down only)
  • 1 calls at Chelmsford, Shenfield, Romford and Stratford (to set down only)
  • 1 calls at Hatfield Peverel, Chelmsford, Ingatestone, Shenfield and Stratford (to set down only)
• 1 tph to Braintree, calling at White Notley, Cressing and Braintree Freeport
• 1tph to Clacton-on-Sea, calling at Colchester (North), Wivenhoe and Thorpe-le-Soken
• 1tph to Harwich Town, calling at Kelvedon, Marks Tey, Colchester (North), Manningtree, Mistley, Wrabness, Harwich International and Dovercourt
• 1 train per two hours (tp2h) to Lowestoft, calling at Marks Tey, Colchester (North), Ipswich, Westerfield, Woodbridge, Melton, Wickham Market, Saxmundham, Darsham, Halesworth, Brampton (Suffolk), Beccles and Oulton Broad South
• 1 tp2h to Peterborough, calling at Marks Tey, Colchester (North), Ipswich, Stowmarket, Bury St Edmunds, Ely, March and Whittlesea

On Sundays this is reduced to:

• 2 tph to London, of which:
  • 1 calls at Chelmsford, Shenfield and Stratford (to set down only)
  • 1 calls at Hatfield Peverel, Chelmsford, Ingatestone, Shenfield and Stratford (to set down only)
• 1 tph to Braintree, as above
• 1 tph to Clacton, calling at Marks Tey, Colchester (North), Wivenhoe, Alresford, Great Bentley and Thorpe-le-Soken
• 1 tph to Ipswich, calling at stations as per the Harwich service shown above until Manningtree

[edit] 1st September 1905

Witham railway station was the scene of a serious accident on Saturday 1st September 1905. The 09:27 London Liverpool Street to Cromer 14 carriage express derailed whilst travelling through the station at speed. 10 passengers and a Luggage Porter were killed when several of the carriages somersaulted onto the platforms causing considerable damage to the rolling stock and the station. More than 50 passengers were seriously injured. This remains to this day the worst single loss of life in a railway accident in Essex.

[edit] External links

• Train times and station information for Witham railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Hatfield Peverel		National Express East Anglia Braintree Branch Line		White Notley
		National Express East Anglia Great Eastern Main Line		Kelvedon
Chelmsford		Dutchflyer London-Amsterdam		Kelvedon

Coordinates: 51°48′21.53″N 0°38′20.77″E / 51.8059806, 0.6391028