Kelvedon
General information
Location	Kelvedon andFeering,District of Braintree England
Coordinates	51°50′27.29″N0°42′09.85″E / 51.8409139°N 0.7027361°E /51.8409139; 0.7027361
Grid reference	TL862192
Managed by	Greater Anglia
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	KEL
Classification	DfT category C2
History
Original company	Eastern Counties Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Eastern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
29 March 1843	Opened
Passengers
2019/20	0.798 million
2020/21	0.120 million
2021/22	0.356 million
2022/23	0.482 million
2023/24	0.546 million
Location
Notes Passenger statistics from theOffice of Rail and Road

Kelvedon railway station is on theGreat Eastern Main Line (GEML) in theEast of England, serving the villages ofKelvedon andFeering, Essex. It is also the closest station to the settlements ofCoggeshall andTiptree. Kelvedon is 42 miles 18 chains (68.0 km) down the line fromLondon Liverpool Street. It is situated betweenWitham to the west andMarks Tey and to the east.^[1] Its three-letter station code is KEL.

The station was opened in 1843 by theEastern Counties Railway. It is currently operated byGreater Anglia, who also operate all trains serving it, as part of theEast Anglia franchise.

To the north-east was a separate station calledKelvedon Low Level, which until 1951 was the terminus of the now disusedKelvedon and Tollesbury Light Railway.

The section of theEastern Counties Railway betweenBrentwood andColchester was opened on 29 March 1843,^[2] and one of the original stations on that section was Kelvedon.^[3]

In common with most rural stations, Kelvedon handled local goods and a 1923 plan shows sidings with cattle pens on the up-side at the London end, and sidings with a goods shed on the down-side at the London end of the station.^[4] There was also a large warehouse which was used by King Seeds for many years on the down-side.^[5] The goods yard closed on 7 December 1964.^[6]

There was a link line toKelvedon Low Level railway station with a drop of 1 in 50, which joined the main line at the country end of the up line.^[6]

The station complex was controlled by asignal box at the London end of the up platform which closed on 3 December 1961 when Witham power box became responsible for the section through to Marks Tey.^[6]

• On 17 October 1872, one passenger was killed and 16 people were injured in aderailment at Kelvedon. The 09:45 express service fromYarmouth toBishopsgate left the tracks as it approached Kelvedon at a speed of up to 40 mph. ABoard of Trade investigation blamed a suspension defect through lack of maintenance.^[7]
• On 4 October 2005, a team of track maintenance staff was working by a set of points at Kelvedon when the 13:30 passenger train fromNorwich toLiverpool Street passed through the station. The team had taken refuge in a place of safety as the train passed, but one of them was injured by a steel threaded plug which flew off the moving locomotive, which was travelling at speed. The worker suffered a fracture to his skull and injury to his hand.^[8]

The following services typically call at Kelvedon:^[9]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Witham		Greater Anglia Great Eastern Main Line		Marks Tey

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