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Harlow Town railway station

Railway station in Essex, England

Field	Value
name	Harlow Town
symbol_location	gb
symbol	rail
image	Harlowtown3.jpg
caption	Platform 3
borough	Harlow, Harlow District
country	England
coordinates
grid_name	Grid reference
grid_position
manager	Greater Anglia
platforms	4
code	HWN
classification	DfT category C1
opened	1842
mpassengers
{{Rail pass box	pass_year	2020/21	passengers= 0.527 million}}
{{Rail pass box	pass_year	2021/22	passengers= 1.313 million}}
{{Rail pass box	pass_year	2022/23	passengers= 1.546 million}}
{{Rail pass box	pass_year	2023/24	passengers= 1.818 million}}
{{Rail pass box	pass_year	2024/25	passengers= 1.847 million}}
footnotes	Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road
embedded	{{Infobox designation list	embed=yes
designation1	Grade II
designation1_feature	Harlow Town Station including Platform Structures
designation1_date	25 November 1995
designation1_number	1117351

Harlow Town railway station is on the West Anglia Main Line serving the town of Harlow in Essex, England. It is 22 mi down the line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between and stations. Its three-letter station code is HWN.

The station and all trains serving it are operated by Greater Anglia.

History

The station was opened in 1842 as Burnt Mill, to serve the small village of the same name.

Between March 1959 and July 1960 the station was rebuilt to serve the post-war new town of Harlow, to designs by Paul Hamilton with John Bicknell and Ian Fraser of the British Railways (Eastern Region) architects department (chief architect: H. H. Powell). Described by Pevsner as "low, crisp and entirely ungimmicky", its architectural quality was recognised in 1996 when it was made a Grade II listed building. The listing entry states "the Eastern Region Architect's Department was the most creative branch of British Railways, designing a number of powerful modern stations in conjunction with the Region's electrification. The new station for Harlow New Town was the flagship of this achievement. It is a building with powerful spatial qualities, of especial interest particularly for its architectural design".

The Architect and Building News in 1959 said the architects have aimed at expressing the beauty of continuous surfaces of natural materials and paintwork has been reduced to a minimum.

On 13 July 1960, the station was renamed Harlow Town. Its status as a listed building has meant that alterations to conform with the Disability Discrimination Act have had to be carried out sensitively to protect the original architectural conception.

Services

All services at Harlow Town are operated by Greater Anglia (including some services which operate under the Stansted Express brand). Services are operated using and EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:

4 tph to London Liverpool Street (2 of these are Stansted Express services, 1 is semi-fast and 1 is a stopping service)
2 tph to (semi-fast)
2 tph to
2 tph to
2 tph to (1 semi-fast, 1 stopping)

During the peak hours, the station is served by an additional 2tph to/from Liverpool Street and Stansted Airport, as well as a small number of services to and from .

On Sundays, the services between Stratford and Bishop's Stortford do not run.

The station today

The station has four platforms. Platform 2 is for services towards London Liverpool Street and Stratford. Platform 3 is for services towards Stansted Airport and Cambridge. Platforms 1 and 4 are used less frequently for slow trains and as a waiting loop for freight trains from the aggregate terminal a mile down the line, they are however used by a number of peak starting/terminating services to/from Liverpool Street or Stratford and by a few through trains northbound and southbound. Currently all platforms accommodate 12 car trains.

In December 2009 ticket barriers were installed at the station, to help reduce fare evasion from the station.{{cite web |access-date=2009-05-08 |archive-date=7 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607095713/http://www.networkrail.co.uk/browse%20documents/rus%20documents/route%20utilisation%20strategies/greater%20anglia/great%20anglia%20rus.pdf |url-status=dead

References

A WAGN EMU travelling through Harlow Town station in 2001

References

{{National Heritage List for England
Lawrence, David. (2018). "British Rail Architecture 1948-97". Crecy Publishing Ltd.
"Seax Archeaology - Unlocking Essex's Past".
. (1959). "British Railways Architecture". *The Architect and Building News*.
(20 May 1960). "Milling About". [[The Evening News (London newspaper).
(April 2022). "GA withdraws all Class 379s".
"More passengers in Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire enjoy new trains".
{{NRtimes. May 2022. 22
"National Rail Enquiries - Harlow Town station information".

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