Stansted Airport railway station
Stansted Airport  | |
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| Location | |
| Place | London Stansted Airport |
| Local authority | District of Uttlesford |
| Grid reference | TL556235 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | SSD |
| Managed by | Abellio Greater Anglia |
| Number of platforms | 3 |
| DfT category | B |
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Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries | |
| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2004/05 | 3.822 million |
| 2005/06 |
 3.799 million |
| 2006/07 |
 5.370 million |
| 2007/08 |
5.522 million |
| 2008/09 |
5.241 million |
| 2009/10 |
4.459 million |
| 2010/11 |
4.074 million |
| 2011/12 |
3.724 million |
| 2012/13 |
3.693 million |
| 2013/14 |
3.686 million |
| 2014/15 |
4.502 million |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 1991 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Stansted Airport from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
| UK Railways portal | |
Stansted Airport railway station serves London Stansted Airport in Essex, England.
It is situated at the end of a short branch from the West Anglia Main Line. The branch was constructed at a cost of £44 million and opened in 1991 by British Rail, to coincide with the completion of the airport's new terminal building. The station was built as a through station for a possible future extension of the line towards Braintree, though a hotel since built immediately to the east of the station now precludes this.
Layout
Platforms 1 and 3 run the full length of the station and are used for Stansted Express and Cambridge services. The shorter Platform 2 is between these and is used for CrossCountry services.
In December 2011 platform 1 was extended to accommodate two trains simultaneously in combinations of up to 16 coaches, and platform 2 was extended to accommodate four-coach Class 170 trains.
Services
The principal service to Stansted Airport is the Stansted Express, a dedicated airport link service from London Liverpool Street operated by Abellio Greater Anglia which runs every 15 minutes. Abellio Greater Anglia also operates trains to/from Cambridge.
The station is also served by CrossCountry which operates an hourly service to Birmingham New Street via Cambridge, Peterborough and Leicester.
Local services to Liverpool Street and all services to Stratford were withdrawn in December 2011; however Stansted Express plans to introduce direct services to Stratford from 2019.
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Station platforms in 2014
External links
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Media related to Stansted Airport railway station at Wikimedia Commons
- Train times and station information for Stansted Airport railway station from National Rail
- Stansted Airport Trains
| Preceding station | National Rail |
Following station | ||
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| Terminus | Stansted Express Liverpool Street-Stansted Airport (West Anglia Main Line) |
Stansted Mountfitchet or Bishop's Stortford or Harlow Town or Cheshunt or Tottenham Hale | ||
| Audley End | Abellio Greater Anglia Bishops Stortford/Stansted Airport-Cambridge |
Stansted Mountfitchet or Terminus | ||
| Audley End | CrossCountry Birmingham - Stansted Airport |
Terminus | ||
Coordinates: 51°53′20″N 0°15′40″E / 51.889°N 0.261°E