Southminster railway station is the eastern terminus of the Crouch Valley Line in

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, England, serving the town of

Southminster Southminster is a town and electoral ward on the Dengie Peninsula in the Maldon district of Essex in the East of England. It lies about north of Burnham-on-Crouch and south-east of Maldon; it is approximately east-north-east of London. To the ...

and other settlements on the

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. 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 ...

. The station is managed by Greater Anglia who operate all services. The

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for the line is WIS, the station's three-letter station code is SMN. The platform has an operational length for 8 carriages. The preceding station to the west is . The line and station were opened on 1 June 1889 for goods and on 1 October 1889 for passengers by the Great Eastern Railway in 1889. The station had a single platform and station buildings. There were extensive sidings including a line to gravel pits which operated until 3 November 1979. The sidings included a goods shed, cattle pens and a locomotive turntable. The station was host to a

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from 1935 to 1939 and possibly one for some of 1934. The goods yard closed on 4 October 1965. There was a 36-lever signal box which closed on 19 January 1986. The line and station were passed to the London and North Eastern Railway following the Grouping of 1923. It then passed to the Eastern Region of British Railways upon nationalisation in 1948. The Wickford to Southminster line was electrified using 25 kV overhead line electrification (OLE) on 12 May 1986. When sectorisation was introduced, Southminster was served by

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until the

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Services

The typical off-peak service is of one train every 40 minutes to , with additional services at peak times. Some peak services continue to or from and/or via the Great Eastern Main Line. On Sundays, the service is reduced is to hourly.

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History of the Crouch Valley Line
{{Railway stations served by Abellio Greater Anglia Railway stations in Essex DfT Category F1 stations Former Great Eastern Railway stations Greater Anglia franchise railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1889 William Neville Ashbee railway stations Southminster