Thorpe-le-Soken railway station is on the

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, a branch of the

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, in the

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, serving the village of

Thorpe-le-Soken Thorpe-le-Soken is a village and civil parish in the Tendring district of Essex, England located east of Colchester, west of Walton-on-the-Naze, Frinton-on-Sea and north of Clacton-on-Sea. History Since 2002, archaeological investigations ahead ...

, Essex. 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 ...

. Its three-letter station code is TLS. To the west the preceding station is and to the east the following stations are on the single-stop Clacton branch or on the branch to . The station was opened by the Tendring Hundred Railway, a subsidiary of the

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, in 1866. It is currently managed by Greater Anglia, which also operates all trains serving the station.

History

The station was opened with the name Thorpe by the Tendring Hundred Railway, a subsidiary of the

, on 28 July 1866 on the Tendring Hundred Extension Railway line. It was renamed Thorpe-le-Soken on 1 March 1900.Butt, R.V.J., (1995) ''The Directory of Railway Stations,'' Yeovil: Patrick Stephens It has two platforms forming an

island platform An island platform (also center platform, centre platform) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange. Island platforms are popular on ...

that is accessible via a footbridge. There is a clearly visible platform and trackbed on what would be platform 3; this is continuous with the other stations on the Walton branch. One of the double tracks that were originally on the line to Walton has been completely taken up.

Services

The typical off-peak services pattern is: During peak hours there are some additional services to and from Liverpool Street.

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{{Railway stations served by Abellio Greater Anglia Railway stations in Essex DfT Category E stations Former Great Eastern Railway stations Greater Anglia franchise railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1866 Thorpe-le-Soken