Audley End railway station

Audley End
Audley End railway station in 2012
Location	Wendens Ambo, District of Uttlesford England
Coordinates	52°00′16″N 0°12′26″E / 52.0045°N 0.2073°E / 52.0045; 0.2073Coordinates: 52°00′16″N 0°12′26″E / 52.0045°N 0.2073°E / 52.0045; 0.2073
Grid reference	TL516363
Managed by	Greater Anglia
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	AUD
Classification	DfT category D
Key dates
30 July 1845	Opened as Wenden
1 November 1848	Renamed Audley End
Passengers
2016/17	0.931 million
Interchange	7,240
2017/18	1.012 million
Interchange	8,474
2018/19	0.979 million
Interchange	8,458
2019/20	1.007 million
Interchange	7,180
2020/21	0.173 million
Interchange	812
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Audley End railway station is on the West Anglia Main Line serving the village of Wendens Ambo and the town of Saffron Walden in Essex, England. It is 41 miles 55 chains (67.1 km) down the line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between Newport and Great Chesterford stations. Its three-letter station code is AUD.

The station is managed by Greater Anglia.

There was a platform at the eastern end of the station (

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History[]

The station was opened in 1845 by the Eastern Counties Railway, which was absorbed into the Great Eastern Railway, and became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the grouping of 1923. The station passed on to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

The station was served by Network SouthEast when BR sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, until it was privatised.

Audley End station's name was changed on signs to Audley End for Saffron Walden in 2012. Sir Alan Haselhurst, MP for Saffron Walden, unveiled the re-branded signs on Friday 25 May.^[1]

Services[]

Audley End is served predominately by trains operated by Greater Anglia^[2] although a few CrossCountry services still remain. As of March 2020, off peak services at the station in trains per hour are:

Greater Anglia

• 2 tph to London Liverpool Street (1 stopping, 1 semi-fast)
• 2 tph to Cambridge North (1 stopping, 1 semi-fast)
• 1 tph to Stansted Airport
• 1 tph to Norwich via Cambridge

CrossCountry

• 3tpd to Cambridge (fast)
• 3tpd to Stansted Airport

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

References[]

References

Sources

• 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 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. 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 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
• Sub Brit page about Saffron Walden Platform
• Station on navigable O.S. map

External links[]

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• Train times and station information for Audley End railway station from National Rail

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