Stansted Airport railway station

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Stansted Airport
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Location
Place	London Stansted Airport
Local authority	Uttlesford
Operations
Station code	SSD
Managed by	'one'
Platforms in use	3
Live departures and station information from National Rail
Annual Passenger Usage
2004/05 *	3.822 million
2005/06 *	3.799 million
History
Key dates	Opened 1991
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Stansted Airport from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Stansted Express route map
Image:BSicon FLUG.svg Image:BSicon KBFa.svg Stansted Airport Image:BSicon leer.svg Image:BSicon eBHF.svg Bishop's Stortford (Limited Service) Image:BSicon leer.svg Image:BSicon eBHF.svg Harlow Town (Limited Service) Image:BSicon leer.svg Image:BSicon SBHF1.svg Tottenham Hale Image:BSicon leer.svg Image:BSicon SKBF1e.svg Liverpool Street

Stansted Airport railway station serves London Stansted Airport in Essex, England.

It is situated at the end of a short branch from the West Anglia Main Line, which was constructed at a cost of £44 million and opened in 1991, to coincide with the completion of the airport's new terminal building.

[edit] Services

The principal service to Stansted Airport is the Stansted Express, a dedicated airport link service from London Liverpool Street operated by 'one', which runs every 15 minutes. Other services operated by 'one' include local services to Liverpool Street, a service to Stratford in east London, and occasional trains northwards to Cambridge.

The station is also served by CrossCountry, who operate an hourly service to Birmingham New Street, via Cambridge, Peterborough and Leicester.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Stansted Mountfitchet		'one' West Anglia Main Line		Terminus
Bishop's Stortford or Harlow Town		'one' Stansted Express		Terminus
Audley End		CrossCountry Birmingham - Stansted Airport		Terminus

[edit] External links

• Train times and station information for Stansted Airport railway station from National Rail
• Street map and aerial photo of Stansted Airport railway station from Multimap.com
• Stansted Airport Trains

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