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Cressing  | |||||
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 Cressing railway station in 1976 | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Cressing,Braintree England | ||||
| Coordinates | 51°51′07″N0°34′41″E / 51.852°N 0.578°E /51.852; 0.578 | ||||
| Grid reference | TL776202 | ||||
| Managed by | Greater Anglia | ||||
| Platforms | 1 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | CES | ||||
| Classification | DfT category F2 | ||||
| History | |||||
| Original company | Eastern Counties Railway | ||||
| Pre-grouping | Great Eastern Railway | ||||
| Post-grouping | London and North Eastern Railway | ||||
| Key dates | |||||
| 2 October 1848 (1848-10-02) | Opened asBulford | ||||
| 1 February 1911 | RenamedCressing | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2019/20 |  46,568 | ||||
| 2020/21 |  13,106 | ||||
| 2021/22 | 34,374 | ||||
| 2022/23 | 39,294 | ||||
| 2023/24 | 45,284 | ||||
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Cressing railway station is on theBraintree Branch Line in theEast of England, serving the villages ofCressing andBlack Notley, Essex. It is 42 miles 75 chains (69.10 km) down the line fromLondon Liverpool Street viaWitham and it is situated betweenWhite Notley to the south andBraintree Freeport to the north. Its three-letter station code is CES. The platform has an operational length for nine-coach trains.
The station is currently managed byGreater Anglia, which also operates all trains serving it.
The Maldon, Witham & Braintree Railway (MWBR) was authorised in 1846 but prior to its opening the company was absorbed by theEastern Counties Railway (ECR).[1] The line opened for goods traffic on 15 August 1848, and for passenger services on 2 October 1848;[1] it was double-tracked throughout until theCrimean War.
The station, originally namedBulford, was also opened on 2 October 1848. It was renamedCressing on 1 February 1911.[2] It is suggested[by whom?] that the large crossing gates were present because Cressing had apassing loop until afterWorld War I, and retained the loop for freight purposes until goods traffic ceased on the line in 1964.
The station was owned by theGreat Eastern Railway (GER) from 1862 to 1923, but as the building does not show typical GER architectural canopy support features, it is likely that it pre-dates the GER. Although there does not appear to be any obvious evidence (as in the case ofMaldon East & Heybridge which displays "MWB" on the gulleys at the top of its downpipes) that it was built when the line first opened, that is a possibility and if so would make it the only surviving MWBR structure on this railway.[original research?]
There was originally asignal box on the platform, next to thelevel crossing. This was removed and relocated to the preservedColne Valley Railway atCastle Hedingham in the 1970s.
All services at Cressing are operated byGreater Anglia usingClass 720EMUs.
The typical off-peak service is one train per hour in each direction betweenBraintree andLondon Liverpool Street viaWitham with additional services calling at the station during the peak hours.[3]
On Sundays, southbound services at the station run only as far as Witham.
| Preceding station |  National Rail | Following station | ||
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| Greater Anglia | ||||
