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Tendring Hundred Railway

Portions of line and locations

This line is divided into a number of portions.

Colchester to Walton-on-Naze

Colchester Town (St Botolphs)

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Class 315 EMUs were built 1980-81 by BREL for use primarily on the inner suburban lines out of Liverpool Street, replacing Class 306 units. In January ...
Mark Dufton 24/01/1981

Surely, the grim reaper of railways has recently passed this way? Lifted track, a gutted signal box - its levers and innards dumped carelessly in the ...
Mark Dufton 29/07/1984

Penultimate DMU from Colchester Town station prior to the changeover to electric services in 1986. ...
Ian Dinmore //1986

Activity inside St Botolphs signalbox, Colchester, on 27th March 1983. The signalman is on the phone making arrangements to turn an engineer's train ...
Mark Dufton 27/03/1983

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Hythe

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Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway 4-8-2 No 5 Hercules with a train at Hythe in August 1990. ...
Peter Todd 04/08/1990

A Class 309 EMU, forming an evening service from Clacton & Walton to Liverpool Street, approaches Hythe along the bank of the River Colne on 9th ...
Mark Dufton 09/08/1976

A Class 321 EMU slows for the stop at Hythe station on 7th January 2012. It will call after at Colchester Town, reverse and terminate at Colchester. ...
Mark Dufton 07/01/2012

A Class 308/1 EMU is recorded between Wivenhoe and Hythe while working a Clacton/Walton to Colchester local service on 17th May 1976. These 1961 ...
Mark Dufton 17/05/1976

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Wivenhoe

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Emerging into sunlight from Wivenhoe woods at 06.30 on 3 July 1981 is 31 133 on the return leg of the Liverpool Street (dep 03.20) to Clacton (arr ...
Mark Dufton 03/07/1981

In 2017, Network Rail announced that it intended to close several footpath crossings in Essex. This photo shows one of these, at Paget Road in ...
Mark Dufton 04/04/2017

A Class 101 DMU passes through Wivenhoe station on 23rd August 1981. The train was a â€œSeaside Specialâ€ that had visited Clacton and Walton ...
Mark Dufton 23/08/1981

In the 1980s, August Bank Holidays still saw very large influxes of day trippers from London into the coastal resorts of Clacton and Walton. British ...
Mark Dufton 25/08/1980

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Alresford

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Thorrington

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The Colchester to Clacton and Walton line has “lost” only two stations during its history, but oddly both closures have been to the detriment of ...
Mark Dufton 30/08/1976

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The signal box at Thorpe-le-Soken station, Essex, on 18th September 2020. The lines to Clacton-on-Sea and Walton-on-the-Naze diverge just to the east ...
David Bosher 18/09/2020

321309 from Colchester via Colchester Town (reverse) to Walton-on-the Naze, at Thorpe-le-Soken on 1st June 2021. On the right, the ex-11.18 service ...
David Bosher 01/06/2021

Thorpe-le-Soken is the Clacton-On-Sea line junction in Essex for the single track branch to Walton-On-The-Naze. The station has been downgraded since ...
David Bosher 18/09/2020

Thorpe-le-Soken, looking towards Colchester, on 18th September 2020. When I first got to know this station in the 1960s, it was a delightful country ...
David Bosher 18/09/2020

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Kirby Cross

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Since the abolition of the short-lived crossing loop at Frinton-on-Sea, Kirby Cross is now the only crossing loop on the single track branch to ...
David Bosher 18/09/2020

The down platform at Kirby Cross, looking east towards Frinton and Walton-on-Naze on 11th July 1976. Passenger business on the branch was very good ...
Mark Dufton 11/07/1976

Class 312 EMU meets Class 105 DMU at Kirby Cross on 30th July 1983. A rare sight on the Thorpe le Soken to Walton on the Naze line, the DMU was ...
Mark Dufton 30/07/1983

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Frinton-on-Sea

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Abandoned loop platform at Frinton-on-Sea, on the single track branch from Thorpe-le-Soken to Walton-on-the-Naze in Essex, seen from a Walton service ...
David Bosher 18/09/2020

With the easing of covid restrictions, and the weather turning sunny and warm, people were only too eager to have a day out at the seaside and this ...
David Bosher 01/06/2021

View from a Walton-on-the-Naze to Colchester service, on Frinton-on-Sea level crossing, on the evening of 1st June 2021. The hugely iconic and ...
David Bosher 01/06/2021

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Walton-on-the-Naze

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321320, just arrived at the seaside terminus at Walton-on-the-Naze in Essex and waiting to return to Colchester via Colchester Town, on 18th September ...
David Bosher 18/09/2020

The replacement ticket office at Walton-on-the-Naze, the Essex seaside terminus of the branch from Thorpe-le-Soken, seen here on the evening of 1st ...
David Bosher 04/06/2021

A moment of quiet contemplation for the signalman at Walton-on-the-Naze in August 1982. The box had one week of operational life left. ...
Mark Dufton /08/1982

Seaside trippers await their train home at Walton-on-the-Naze station on a warm and sunny 3rd June 1978. Platform 2 is occupied by a stabled Class 302 ...
Mark Dufton 03/06/1978

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Tendring Hundred Railway

Portions of line and locations

Colchester to Walton-on-Naze

Colchester Town (St Botolphs)

Hythe

Wivenhoe

Alresford

Thorrington

Great Bentley

Weeley

Thorpe-le-Soken

Kirby Cross

Frinton-on-Sea

Walton-on-the-Naze

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