Broxbourne railway station


Broxbourne railway station is on the West Anglia Main Line serving the towns of Broxbourne and Hoddesdon in Hertfordshire, England. It is down the line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between and. Its three-letter station code is BXB and it is in fare zone B.
The station and all trains serving it are operated by Greater Anglia.

History

Broxbourne station was officially opened by the Northern and Eastern Railway on 15 September 1840. It was on the company's proposed line to Cambridge, but the next section of the line to Latton Mill was not opened until August 1841. Therefore, for a short period of time Broxbourne was the terminus for the line which ran up the Lea Valley from Stratford Junction, where it joined the Eastern Counties Railway. The station was moved from its original site in Station Road to the present site in 1959 with the new buildings designed by H.H. Powell, of the British Railways Eastern Region Architects' Department with T. Rainier as the Project Architect.
The station was Grade II listed in March 2009; "one of a very small number of post-war railway stations of clear architectural distinction".
Ticket barriers were installed in 2011.
The centre platforms were extended to accommodate 12-coach trains in December 2011, though initially no 12-coach trains were scheduled to call.
Of the four platforms, platform 1 is used by terminating or starting services to and from Liverpool Street, Stratford and Hertford East, platform 2 is used by services to Liverpool Street and Stratford, platform 3 is used by services to Hertford East, Cambridge and Bishops Stortford, and platform 4 is used by services to Hertford East.

Service

The typical Monday-Saturday off-peak service is:
In the peak selected services continue further to Waterbeach before terminating at Ely.
On Sundays the general service pattern is: