Audley End railway station

Audley End railway station is on the West Anglia Main Line serving the village of Wendens Ambo and the market town of Saffron Walden in Essex, England. It is down the line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between Template:Rws and Template:Rws stations. Its three-letter station code is AUD.

The station is managed by Greater Anglia.

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.

From 1865 the station also served as a junction with the branch line to Saffron Walden that began here and extended as far as Bartlow station where it met the Stour Valley Railway, but was closed in 1964. There used to be a platform at the eastern end of the station () for terminating trains to and from Saffron Walden.

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.

Services

Most services at Audley End are operated by Greater Anglia using Template:Brc EMUs and Template:Brc bi-mode trains.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:

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

During the peak hours, a number of services from London continue beyond Cambridge North to Ely.

The station is also served by a small number of early morning and late evening CrossCountry operated services between Stansted Airport and Birmingham New Street.

Preceding station	National Rail National Rail			Following station
Newport or Bishop's Stortford	style="background:#Template:NXEA colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |	Greater Anglia Template:Smalldiv	style="background:#Template:NXEA colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |	Great Chesterford or Whittlesford Parkway
Stansted Airport		Greater Anglia Template:Smalldiv Template:Smalldiv		Whittlesford Parkway
		CrossCountry [[Cross Country Route|Template:Smalldiv]] Template:Smalldiv		Cambridge
	Disused railways
Saffron Walden	style="background:#Template:GER colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |	Great Eastern Railway Template:Smalldiv	style="background:#Template:GER colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |	Terminus

References

References

Sources

• Sub Brit page about Saffron Walden Platform
• Station on navigable O.S. map

External links

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

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