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Wivenhoe  | |||||
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 Wivenhoe railway station in 2008 | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Wivenhoe,Colchester England | ||||
| Coordinates | 51°51′25″N0°57′22″E / 51.857°N 0.956°E /51.857; 0.956 | ||||
| Grid reference | TM112214 | ||||
| Managed by | Greater Anglia | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | WIV | ||||
| Classification | DfT category E | ||||
| Key dates | |||||
| 8 May 1863 (1863-05-08) | Opened asWivenhoe | ||||
| July 1879 | RenamedWyvenhoe | ||||
| October 1911 | RenamedWivenhoe | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2019/20 |  0.403 million | ||||
| Interchange | 2,161 | ||||
| 2020/21 |  70,786 | ||||
| Interchange | 589 | ||||
| 2021/22 | 0.217 million | ||||
| Interchange | 1,531 | ||||
| 2022/23 | 0.279 million | ||||
| Interchange | 1,238 | ||||
| 2023/24 | 0.324 million | ||||
| Interchange | 1,349 | ||||
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Wivenhoe railway station is on theSunshine Coast Line, a branch of theGreat Eastern Main Line, in theEast of England, serving the small town ofWivenhoe, Essex. It is 56 miles (90 km) down the line fromLondon Liverpool Street[1] and is situated betweenHythe to the west andAlresford to the east. Its three-letter station code is WIV.
The station was opened by the Tendring Hundred Railway, a subsidiary of theGreat Eastern Railway, in 1863. It has two platforms, a staffed ticket office, and is currently operated byAbellio Greater Anglia, which also runs all trains serving the station.
It is a short distance from theRiver Colne at Wivenhoe quay and its car park is the starting point of the Wivenhoe Trail, a cycle track that runs alongside the river toColchester.
Wivenhoe station was opened on 8 May 1863 by the Tendring Hundred Railway, which was worked by theGreat Eastern Railway. From July 1879 its name was speltWyvenhoe; in October 1911 it reverted to the original spelling,Wivenhoe.[2]
A few hundred metres east of the station there was a junction for the single-track branch line toBrightlingsea. This branch was opened in April 1866 and closed as part of theBeeching cuts in June 1964 and the tracks lifted. A bridge over Alresford Creek was also later demolished.
All services at Wivenhoe are operated byGreater Anglia usingClass 720EMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[3]
Additional services call at the station during the peak hours.
On Sundays, the services between Colchester and Walton-on-the-Naze do not run.
| Preceding station |  National Rail | Following station | ||
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| Hythe | Greater Anglia | Alresford or Thorpe-le-Soken | ||
| Disused railways | ||||
| Great Eastern Railway | ||||
