Crouch Valley Line,Essex, 1972-2014


David Bosher

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<h4><a href='/locations/B/Burnham-on-Crouch'>Burnham-on-Crouch</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/'/New_Essex_Branch,_Wickford_to_Southminster_Great_Eastern_Railway'>'New Essex' Branch, Wickford to Southminster (Great Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>A grainy photo from my archives of a much changed scene as a reasonably-sized crowd of passengers alight from a Wickford to Southminster service at its penultimate stop at Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex, in June 1972. The train will head away from the camera when it departs. Even then, the station had been reduced to just one bi-directional platform with the removal of the passing loop. The branch has since been electrified (see my photo image no. <a href='/img/67/456/index.html'>67456</a>). 1/8</p><p>/06/1972<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/South_Woodham_Ferrers'>South Woodham Ferrers</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/'/New_Essex_Branch,_Wickford_to_Southminster_Great_Eastern_Railway'>'New Essex' Branch, Wickford to Southminster (Great Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>South Woodham Ferrers station on the Crouch Valley Line in Essex, seen from 321331 calling with a service from Wickford to Southminster on 5th April 2014. As plain Woodham Ferrers this was the junction for passenger services to Maldon East until 1939 with a goods service that lasted until 1953 as far as Maldon West with the section between the West and East stations at Maldon surviving as a siding until 1959. Maldon East remained open for passengers from Witham until 1964 and goods until 1966. This station was renamed from Woodham Ferrers to South Woodham Ferrers on 20th May 2007. 2/8</p><p>05/04/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Burnham-on-Crouch'>Burnham-on-Crouch</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/'/New_Essex_Branch,_Wickford_to_Southminster_Great_Eastern_Railway'>'New Essex' Branch, Wickford to Southminster (Great Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>Burnham-on-Crouch station on the Crouch Valley Line in Essex looking towards Southminster, on 5th April 2014. This is another branch station where the canopy has been cut back during electrification See image <a href='/img/28/336/index.html'>28336</a> from 1978. [Ref query 18 December 2018] 3/8</p><p>05/04/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Burnham-on-Crouch'>Burnham-on-Crouch</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/'/New_Essex_Branch,_Wickford_to_Southminster_Great_Eastern_Railway'>'New Essex' Branch, Wickford to Southminster (Great Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>321324 at Burnham-on-Crouch station in Essex on 5th April 2014. The train will head away from the camera when it departs with a Crouch Valley Line service from Southminster to Wickford. 4/8</p><p>05/04/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Southminster'>Southminster</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/G/Great_Eastern_Railway'>Great Eastern Railway</a></small></p><p>321331 at Southminster station, terminus of the Crouch Valley Line in Essex, on 5th April 2014. See image <a href='/img/65/354/index.html'>65354</a> of the same location thirty years earlier, since when electrification has forced the platform canopy to be cut back behind the platform edge. 5/8</p><p>05/04/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Southminster'>Southminster</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/G/Great_Eastern_Railway'>Great Eastern Railway</a></small></p><p>Another view of 321331 at the Southminster branch terminus, waiting to depart with a Crouch Valley Line service to Wickford, on 5th April 2014. 6/8</p><p>05/04/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/South_Woodham_Ferrers'>South Woodham Ferrers</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/'/New_Essex_Branch,_Wickford_to_Southminster_Great_Eastern_Railway'>'New Essex' Branch, Wickford to Southminster (Great Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>South Woodham Ferrers station in Essex, seen from 321 331 calling with a Crouch Valley Line service from Southminster to Wickford, on 5th April 2014. The station was just plain Woodham Ferrers until 2007 and was once the junction for Maldon, closed to passengers in 1939 and freight in 1953. It was also a passing place but the loop has been removed, leaving traces of an abandoned platform opposite, behind the train. The loop at Burnham-on-Crouch station has also been removed so that, for many years now, trains can only pass at the one remaining loop at North Fambridge station, as renamed from plain Fambridge in 2007. 7/8</p><p>05/04/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Wickford'>Wickford</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/G/Great_Eastern_Railway'>Great Eastern Railway</a></small></p><p>321331, just arrived from Southminster at Wickford station in Essex, on 5th April 2014. This is the junction where branch trains on the Crouch Valley Line join the Southend Victoria to London Liverpool Street line with some through workings to and from London. 8/8</p><p>05/04/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>
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