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Manningtree railway station

Railway station in Essex, England

Summary

Railway station in Essex, England

Field	Value
name	Manningtree
symbol_location	gb
symbol	rail
image	Manningtree station in 2013 - up side exterior.JPG
borough	Lawford, Essex
country	England
grid_name	Grid reference
grid_position
manager	Greater Anglia
platforms	3
code	MNG
classification	DfT category C2
opened	15 June 1846
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-- Manningtree railway station is on the Great Eastern Main Line (GEML) in the East of England, serving the town of Manningtree, Essex. It is 59 mi down the line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between to the west and to the east. The three-letter station code is MNG. It is also the western terminus of the Mayflower Line, a branch line to . The following station on the branch is .

The station is currently operated by Greater Anglia, who also operate all trains serving it, as part of the East Anglia franchise.

History

The station was opened by the Eastern Union Railway in 1846 but rebuilt by the Great Eastern Railway in 1899–1901; this building survives. It was designed by W. N. Ashbee.

Description

Immediately east of the station there is a triangle of junctions, known as the Manningtree South, North and East junctions and originally each double-track junction was controlled by an individual signal box. In 1926 the London and North Eastern Railway installed a new power box at Manningtree South which controlled all three junctions. Today, the north to east curve connecting Ipswich with is a single track, having been reduced from double-track. All three sides of the triangle are electrified.

A second peculiar feature just east of the station is a combination of a road underpass and a level crossing. The underpass has limited height and the parallel level crossing is needed to permit higher vehicles to cross the railway.

Platform 1 is a bay platform accessible only from the Mayflower Line. It has an operational length for five-coach trains. Platform 2 (London-bound) and platform 3 (country-bound) each have an operational length for twelve-coach trains. There is a fourth platform on the outer side of the "down" (country-bound) platform which is electrified, but its use would be confined to emergency situations. It can only be used to access the main line to or from Ipswich . The station has (on the London-bound platform) a staffed booking office and a self-service ticket machine. There is a side-gate west of the station building for use outside of office hours and a self-service ticket machine is also available here. There is a station buffet at the eastern end of the building.

The installation of lifts started in December 2015 and they are now in operation as of Autumn 2016.

Accidents

On 20 August 1898, five people were slightly injured in a collision between a train and two carriages it was moving to attach to at Manningtree. The stationary carriages contained around 50 passengers and had just been detached from a main line train; they were due to be attached to the branch line train for Harwich Town but it reversed back to them at too great a speed and shunted into them with sufficient force to propel them backward by five or six yards. A Board of Trade investigation reported the driver misjudged the position of the carriages and the speed of his train, and the shunter failed to timely signal to the driver that he was too close to the coaches and moving too fast.

Services

The following services typically called at Manningtree in 2024:

Operator	Route	Rolling stock	Frequency
Greater Anglia	London Liverpool Street - Chelmsford - Colchester - Manningtree - Ipswich - Diss - Norwich	Class 745	1x per hour
Greater Anglia	London Liverpool Street - Stratford - Colchester - Manningtree - Ipswich - Stowmarket - Diss - Norwich	Class 745	1x per hour
Greater Anglia	London Liverpool Street - Stratford - Shenfield - Chelmsford - - Hatfield Peverel - Witham - Kelvedon - Marks Tey - Colchester - Manningtree - Ipswich	Class 720	1x per hour
Greater Anglia	Manningtree - Mistley - Wrabness - Harwich International - Dovercourt - Harwich Town	Class 720	1x per hour

References

Yonge, John. (September 2006). "Railway Track Diagrams 2: Eastern". Trackmaps.
Moffat, Hugh. (1987). "East Anglia's First Railways". Terence Dalton.
Bonavia, Michael R.. (1985). "A History of the LNER, Vol. 1, The First Years 1923-33". Guild Publishing.
Mitchell, Vic. (June 2011). "Branch lines to Harwich and Hadleigh". Middleton Press.
{{harvnb. Mitchell. 2011
Brailsford, Martyn. (2016). "Railway Track Diagrams Volume 2 Eastern". Trackmaps.
[http://mrua-news.blogspot.com/2015/12/end-of-year.html End of Year 2015]
[http://www.abelliogreateranglia.co.uk/travel-information/station-information/mng Manningtree station update]
"Particulars of damage to engines and rolling stock".
{{NRtimes. May 2016. 11

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