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Frinton-on-Sea railway station

Railway station in Essex, England

Summary

Railway station in Essex, England

Field	Value
name	Frinton-on-Sea
symbol_location	gb
symbol	rail
image	Frinton-on-Sea railway station in 2006 (cropped).jpg
borough	Frinton-on-Sea, Tendring
country	England
coordinates
grid_name	Grid reference
grid_position
manager	Greater Anglia
platforms	1
code	FRI
classification	DfT category E
original	Tendring Hundred Railway
pregroup	Great Eastern Railway
postgroup	London and North Eastern Railway
years	July 1888
events	Opened as Frinton
years1	20 May 2007
events1	Renamed Frinton-on-Sea
mpassengers
{{Rail pass box	pass_year	2020/21	passengers= 51,010}}
{{Rail pass box	pass_year	2021/22	passengers= 0.135 million}}
{{Rail pass box	pass_year	2022/23	passengers= 0.159 million}}
{{Rail pass box	pass_year	2023/24	passengers= 0.179 million}}
{{Rail pass box	pass_year	2024/25	passengers= 0.209 million}}
footnotes	Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Frinton-on-Sea railway station is on the Walton branch of the Sunshine Coast Line in the East of England, serving the seaside town of Frinton-on-Sea, Essex. It is 68 mi down the line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between to the west and to the east. Its three-letter station code is FRI.

The station was opened by Great Eastern Railway in 1888. It is currently managed by Greater Anglia, which also operates all trains serving the station.

History

This section of line was built as the Tendring Hundred Railway and opened in 1867. The Tendring Hundred Railway was operated by the Great Eastern Railway, which subsequently bought the line and the adjacent Clacton-on-Sea Railway on 1 July 1883.

When the line first opened there was no station at Frinton, which was then a very small village. The nearest stations were at Kirby Cross and Walton-on-the-Naze. In the mid-1880s developers began to lay out a new resort town at Frinton, and reached an agreement with the railway company to build a new station. The station was opened with the name Frinton in July 1888.

The line became part of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) in 1923 and then the Eastern Region of British Railways in 1948 following nationalisation of the railways.

The station is immediately to the west of a level crossing that provides road access to Frinton. Residents of the town who live inside the gates of the crossing attach a particular status to this fact. These wooden gates were, until 2009, the only manually operated level crossing gates on the line. The level crossing is now protected by a barrier system.

The station's name was changed to Frinton-on-Sea in 2007.

Services

In 1929 the LNER introduced luxurious Pullman day excursion trips from Liverpool Street to various seaside resorts. The service known as the Eastern Belle served on Mondays, Frinton and Walton on Tuesdays, Clacton on Wednesdays, and and on Thursdays and Fridays. The service ended in September 1939 at the outset of World War II.

The current service pattern is:

Operator	Route	Rolling stock	Frequency	Notes
Greater Anglia	Colchester - Colchester Town - Hythe - Wivenhoe - Alresford - Great Bentley - Weeley - Thorpe-le-Soken - Kirby Cross - Frinton-on-Sea - Walton-on-the-Naze	Class 720	1x per hour	Monday-Saturday
Greater Anglia	Thorpe-le-Soken - Kirby Cross - Frinton-on-Sea - Walton-on-the-Naze	Class 720	1x per hour	Sunday

Passengers for must change at Thorpe-le-Soken for a connection, except for the final Thorpe-le-Soken-bound train of the day on weekdays.

References

"RailRef GE Great Eastern".
(1975). "The Great Eastern Railway". Ian Allan.
Walsh, B.D.J.. (September 1959). "The Great Eastern Line in the Tendring Hundred". Tothill Press Ltd.
(29 May 1886). "Frinton Haven". Essex Standard.
(1914). "Kelly's Directory of Essex".
[http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/service_bulletins/Changes_to_the_NRTT_from_Sunday_20th_May.html Changes to National Rail timetable from Sunday 20 May 2007] {{webarchive. link. (21 May 2007 National Rail. Retrieved 2007-05-19)
(January 1992). "Pullman cars and the Great Eastern part 5". Great Eastern Journal.

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