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Kirby Cross railway station is on the Walton branch of the
The original station building has been disused for many years and has not been staffed since the 1990s. In 2016 it was reported that the line franchisee,
Sunshine Coast Line
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in the East of England
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, serving the village of Kirby Cross
Kirby Cross is a village in Tendring district, Essex, England. It is situated near to Kirby-le-Soken and Frinton-on-Sea. Historically, Kirby Cross was a hamlet within the parish of Kirby-le-Soken, but since 1934 both settlements have been part ...
, Essex. It is down the line from London Liverpool Street
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and is situated between to the west and to the east. Its three-letter station code is KBX.
It is currently managed by Greater Anglia, which also operates all trains serving the station.
History
The station was opened by the Tendring Hundred Railway, a subsidiary of theGreat Eastern Railway
The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was a pre-grouping British railway company, whose main line linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich and which had other lines through East Anglia. The company was grouped into the London and North Eastern R ...
, in 1866.
The station has two platforms with eastbound and westbound lines, but either side of the station the line is single-track.
The original station building has been disused for many years and has not been staffed since the 1990s. In 2016 it was reported that the line franchisee, Abellio Greater Anglia
Greater Anglia (legal name Abellio East Anglia Limited) is a train operating company in Great Britain owned as a joint venture by Abellio (transport company), Abellio, the international arm of the state-owned Dutch national rail operator Neder ...
, planned to demolish the station building and provide platform shelters in its place. It also planned to demolish the station buildings at and . The buildings were subsequently offered to Tendring Borough Council for £1 each, should the council wish to renovate them.
Accidents and incidents
On 5 April 1981 eight people were injured in a low-speed head-on collision on the single-track line just east of Kirby Cross after an empty stock train passed a signal at 'danger'. The empty train collided with the 6:49 pm service for which was carrying 20 passengers, of whom five were hospitalised. An investigation confirmed the empty train's driver erroneously passed the signal at 'danger'.http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/DoT_KirkbyCross1981.pdfServices
The typical off-peak service is: Passengers for must change at Thorpe-le-Soken for a connecting service to London Liverpool Street. On Sundays, passengers for Colchester must change at Thorpe-le-Soken. During peak hours there are some additional services to and fromLondon Liverpool Street
Liverpool Street station, also known as London Liverpool Street, is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in the north-eastern corner of the City of London, in the ward of Bishopsgate Without. It is the t ...
.
References
External links
Railway stations in Essex DfT Category F2 stations Former Great Eastern Railway stations Greater Anglia franchise railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1866 {{EastEngland-railstation-stub