Battlesbridge railway station

Battlesbridge railway station is on the Crouch Valley Line in the East of England, serving the village of Battlesbridge, Essex. It is 31 miles 40 chains (50.7 km) down the line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between Wickford to the west and South Woodham Ferrers to the east. The Engineer's Line Reference for the line is WIS; the station's three-letter station code is BLB.

Battlesbridge
The station's platform, 2011
Location
Place	Battlesbridge
Local authority	Chelmsford
Grid reference	TQ776949
Operations
Station code	BLB
Managed by	Greater Anglia
Number of platforms	1
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15	14,950
2015/16	14,984
2016/17	16,804
2017/18	21,108
2018/19	16,446
National Rail – UK railway stations
Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Battlesbridge from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

Battlesbridge in 1961, seven years before the station buildings were demolished

The line and station were opened on 1 June 1889 for goods and on 1 October 1889 for passenger services by the Great Eastern Railway.[1] The station had a single platform with a station building, a goods shed, a goods yard including cattle pens, and a 34-lever signal box. The freight service was withdrawn on 4 October 1965; the goods loop and signal box were closed on 7 December 1966. All the station buildings were demolished in 1968.[1] Electrification of the Wickford to Southminster line using 25 kV overhead line electrification (OLE) was completed on 12 May 1986.

Battlesbridge station is currently managed by Greater Anglia, which also operates all trains serving it. The typical off-peak service is of one westbound train every 40 minutes to Wickford (with some peak-hour services continuing to Shenfield and/or London Liverpool Street) and one eastbound train every 40 minutes to Southminster. Since the platform is only long enough to accommodate eight carriages, any peak-hour trains formed of 12 coaches do not call at Battlesbridge.