Manea railway station

Manea
Manea
	A view of the two platforms
Location
Place	Manea
Local authority	Fenland
Grid reference	TL479911
Operations
Station code	MNE
Managed by	Greater Anglia
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F2
	Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections; from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15	10,794[note 1]
2015/16	12,020
2016/17	13,452
2017/18	15,894
2018/19	18,950
	National Rail – UK railway stations
	Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Manea from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.;

Manea railway station /ˈmeɪniː/ is on the Ely–Peterborough line in the east of England and serves the village of Manea, Cambridgeshire. It is 80 miles 18 chains (129.1 km) measured from London Liverpool Street (via Clapton and Ely), and is situated between Ely and March stations.[1]

History

In 1966, the Minister of Transport Barbara Castle refused British Rail's request to close the station, although she did agree to the closure of the stations at Stonea and Bentley.[2]

Services

The signal box at Manea

On Mondays to Saturdays, Greater Anglia operates one train every two hours in each direction between Peterborough and Ipswich. These services use British Rail Class 755 bi-mode units.

There are two trains per day in each direction operated by CrossCountry on the Stansted Airport to Birmingham route. These use British Rail Class 170 diesel units.

From May 17, 2020 Greater Anglia services will stop at Manea on Sundays 12 services a day 6 each way. First on 09:03 to Peterborough and Last one being 20:11 to Colchester via Ely and Ipswich.

The station has benefitted from an on-site ticket machine since late October 2018, situated on the south side of the line (next to the line for trains in the direction of March and Peterborough).

Notes

The vast increase in numbers is attributed by the ORR to the improved service from January 2014 onwards

References

Padgett, David (October 2016) [1988]. Brailsford, Martyn (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams 2: Eastern (4th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. map 13C. ISBN 978-0-9549866-8-1.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Allen, G. Freeman, ed. (November 1966). "Closures and withdrawals". Modern Railways. Vol. XXII no. 218. pp. 619–620.

External links

Train times and station information for Manea railway station from National Rail
Media related to Manea railway station at Wikimedia Commons

Preceding station	National Rail	Following station
Ely	Abellio Greater Anglia Ipswich–Peterborough	March
Ely	CrossCountry Birmingham–Stansted Airport (Limited service)	March
Historical railways
Stonea Line open, station closed	Great Eastern Railway Ely–Peterborough	Black Bank Line open, station closed

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[1] The vast increase in numbers is attributed by the ORR to the improved service from January 2014 onwards

[2] Padgett, David (October 2016) [1988]. Brailsford, Martyn (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams 2: Eastern (4th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. map 13C. ISBN 978-0-9549866-8-1.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

[3] Allen, G. Freeman, ed. (November 1966). "Closures and withdrawals". Modern Railways. Vol. XXII no. 218. pp. 619–620.