Trains at Witham, GEML, 26/06/24

Witham railway station is on the Great Eastern Main Line (GEML) in the East of England, serving the town of Witham, Essex. It is situated about half a mile (1 km) from the north of the town centre and is 38 miles 48 chains (62.1 km) down the line from London Liverpool Street. On the GEML, Witham is situated between Hatfield Peverel to the west and Kelvedon to the east. It is the junction for the Braintree Branch Line to the north-west, which opened in 1848; between 1848 and 1964, it was also the junction for a south-east-facing branch line to Maldon. Its three-letter station code is WTM.

The station was opened in 1843 by the Eastern Counties Railway. It is currently operated by Greater Anglia, who also operate all trains serving it, as part of the East Anglia franchise.

The section of the Eastern Counties Railway (ECR) between Brentwood and Colchester entered operation on 29 March 1843.

Witham station opened on the same day.

The station became a junction five years later with the opening of the Maldon, Witham & Braintree Railway (MW&B) for goods trains on 15 August 1848; passenger services on the line began on 2 October 1848.

The MW&B was later absorbed by the ECR, which itself amalgamated with other companies in 1862 to form the Great Eastern Railway.

Duration of the video: 13:35 - 15:08

We’ll be seeing services by Greater Anglia and hopefully some freight as well.

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I really appreciated my time that was spent at Witham especially with the amount of variety I managed to see in the time I was there for however I was expecting to see more freight trains bypassing the station but it doesn’t matter though.

My next station will be East Croydon which is situated on the Brighton Mainline I haven’t visited that particular station for a very long time but I’m sure it’ll be worth visiting and coming to so until then thanks for watching and I’ll see you in the next video.