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Wivenhoe railway station

Railway station in Essex, England

Summary

Railway station in Essex, England

Field	Value
name	Wivenhoe
symbol_location	gb
symbol	rail
image	Wivenhoe Railway Station - geograph.org.uk - 725235.jpg
caption	Wivenhoe railway station in 2008
borough	Wivenhoe, Colchester
country	England
coordinates
grid_name	Grid reference
grid_position
manager	Greater Anglia
platforms	2
code	WIV
classification	DfT category E
years
events	Opened as Wivenhoe
years1	July 1879
events1	Renamed Wyvenhoe
years2	October 1911
events2	Renamed Wivenhoe
mpassengers
{{Rail pass box	pass_year	2017/18	passengers= 0.390 million}}
{{Rail pass box	pass_year	2018/19	passengers= 0.401 million}}
{{Rail pass box	pass_year	2019/20	passengers= 0.403 million	interchange= 2,161}} --
{{Rail pass box	pass_year	2020/21	passengers= 70,786	interchange= 589}}
{{Rail pass box	pass_year	2021/22	passengers= 0.217 million	interchange= 1,531}}
{{Rail pass box	pass_year	2022/23	passengers= 0.279 million	interchange= 1,238}}
{{Rail pass box	pass_year	2023/24	passengers= 0.324 million	interchange= 1,349}}
{{Rail pass box	pass_year	2024/25	passengers= 0.352 million	interchange= 471}}
footnotes	Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

-- Wivenhoe railway station is on the Sunshine Coast Line, a branch of the Great Eastern Main Line, in the East of England, serving the small town of Wivenhoe, Essex. It is 56 mi down the line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between Hythe to the west and Alresford to the east. Its three-letter station code is WIV.

The station was opened by the Tendring Hundred Railway, a subsidiary of the Great Eastern Railway, in 1863. It has two platforms, a staffed ticket office, and is currently operated by Abellio Greater Anglia, which also runs all trains serving the station.

It is a short distance from the River Colne at Wivenhoe quay and its car park is the starting point of the Wivenhoe Trail, a cycle track that runs alongside the river to Colchester.

History

Wivenhoe station was opened on 8 May 1863 by the Tendring Hundred Railway, which was worked by the Great Eastern Railway. From July 1879 its name was spelt Wyvenhoe; in October 1911 it reverted to the original spelling, Wivenhoe.

A few hundred metres east of the station there was a junction for the single-track branch line to . This branch was opened in April 1866 and closed as part of the Beeching cuts in June 1964 and the tracks lifted. A bridge over Alresford Creek was also later demolished.

Services

All services at Wivenhoe are operated by Greater Anglia using EMUs.

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

1 tph to London Liverpool Street
1 tph to via
1 tph to
1 tph to

Additional services call at the station during the peak hours.

On Sundays, the services between Colchester and Walton-on-the-Naze do not run.

References

"RailRef GE Great Eastern".
Butt, R.V.J.. (1995). "The Directory of Railway Stations". Patrick Stephens Ltd.
{{NRtimes. June 2024. 11

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