Harlow Mill railway station is on the

West Anglia Main Line The West Anglia Main Line is one of the two main lines that operate out of , the other being the Great Eastern Main Line, which operates services to Ipswich and Norwich via Colchester. It runs generally north through Cheshunt, Broxbourne, Har ...

serving the eastern part of Harlow in

Essex Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and Grea ...

, England. It is down the line from

London 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 ...

and is situated between and stations. Its three-letter station code is HWM. The station and all trains serving it are operated by Greater Anglia.

History

The station was opened in 1842 as Harlow, on the

Northern and Eastern Railway The Northern & Eastern Railway (N&ER) was an early British railway company, that planned to build a line from London to York. Its ambition was cut successively back, and it was only constructed from Stratford, east of London, to the towns of Bi ...

's line between London and Bishop's Stortford. It served the village of the same name, located on the London to Cambridge toll road. In the late 1940s, as the new town of Harlow was being built, the original village of Harlow was named

Old Harlow Old Harlow is the historic part of the new town and district of Harlow, Essex in England. Old Harlow is situated in the north-east area of the town and is the oldest area of the town. Old Harlow pre-dates the first written record in the Dome ...

and incorporated as a district in the new town. The station was renamed Harlow Mill on 13 July 1960, after the mill on the

River Stort The River Stort is a river in Essex and Hertfordshire, England. It is 24 miles (38 km) long and flows from just south of the village of Langley to the River Lea at Hoddesdon. The river's name is a back-formation; the town of Bishop's Sto ...

, just north of the station.

Services

All services at Harlow Mill are operated by Greater Anglia using EMUs. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: * 1 tph to

* 1 tph to * 1 tph to * 1 tph to During the peak hours, the station is served by an additional hourly service between London Liverpool Street and . The station is also served by a small number of peak hour services to and from . On Sundays, the services between Stratford and Bishop's Stortford do not run.

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Railway stations in Essex DfT Category E stations Transport in Harlow Former Great Eastern Railway stations Greater Anglia franchise railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1842 {{EastEngland-railstation-stub