Audley End railway station

Not to be confused with Lord Braybrooke's miniature railway, the Audley End Railway.

Audley End
Audley End railway station in July 2012
Location
Place	Wendens Ambo
Local authority	Uttlesford
Coordinates	52.0045°N 0.2073°E / 52.0045; 0.2073
Grid reference	TL516363
Operations
Station code	AUD
Managed by	Greater Anglia
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	0.751 million
2005/06	0.721 million
2006/07	0.729 million
2007/08	0.774 million
2008/09	0.766 million
2009/10	0.723 million
2010/11	0.747 million
2011/12	0.751 million
History
30 July 1845	Station opens as Wenden
1 November 1848	Name changed to Audley End
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Audley End from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Audley End railway station serves the small village of Wendens Ambo and the nearby town of Saffron Walden. The station is named after the manor of Audley End in Essex, England, also nearby. There was formerly a platform at the east end of the station (52.0043°N 0.2077°E / 52.0043; 0.2077) for a branch line to Saffron Walden, though this was closed in 1964.

History

Opened by the Eastern Counties Railway, it was absorbed into the Great Eastern Railway, becoming part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

The station was served by Network SouthEast when Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, until the Privatisation of British Railways.

The station name was changed on signs to Audley End for Saffron Walden in 2012. Sir Alan Haselhurst, MP for Saffron Walden officially unveiled the re-branded signs at Audley End station on Friday 25 May at 11.30.

Services

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Newport		Greater Anglia West Anglia Main Line		Great Chesterford
Stansted Mountfitchet		Greater Anglia West Anglia Main Line		Whittlesford Parkway
Cambridge		CrossCountry Birmingham - Stansted Airport		Stansted Airport
	Disused railways
Saffron Walden		Great Eastern Railway Saffron Walden Railway		Terminus

References

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687. 
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137. 
• Sub Brit page about Saffron Walden Platform
• Station on navigable O.S. map