Stansted Airport railway station is on a branch line off the West Anglia Main Line in the east of England and was opened in 1991 to provide a rail link to London Stansted Airport. It is 36 miles 67 chains (59.3 km) down the line from London Liverpool Street station, to which a frequent dedicated service called the Stansted Express operates.

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Stansted Airport
General information
Location	London Stansted Airport, District of Uttlesford England
Grid reference	TL556235
Managed by	Greater Anglia
Platforms	3
Other information
Station code	SSD
Classification	DfT category B
History
Opened	1991
Original company	British Rail
Passengers
2016/17	7.632 million
2017/18	8.934 million
Interchange	32,632
2018/19	9.774 million
Interchange	26,348
2019/20	8.475 million
Interchange	2,938
2020/21	0.795 million
Interchange	445
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

The short branch line was constructed at a cost of £44 million and opened by British Rail to coincide with the completion of the airport's new terminal building.[1]

Layout

Platforms 1 and 3 run the full length of the station and are used for Stansted Express and Norwich services. The shorter platform number 2 is used for the CrossCountry-operated services to Birmingham New Street.

In 2011 platform 1 was extended to accommodate two trains simultaneously in combinations of up to 16 coaches, and platform 2 was extended to accommodate four-coach trains.

The station is in a concrete box structure that is unusually above ground level rather than below ground, being constructed under the terminal building. This is evident at the western end of the platforms which are left open and is a similar design to Wembley Central railway station.

Services

Services at Stansted Airport are operated by Greater Anglia (including services under the Stansted Express brand) and CrossCountry.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[2]

• 2 tph to London Liverpool Street
• 1 tph to Norwich via Cambridge
• 1 tp2h to Birmingham New Street via Cambridge and Leicester

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Stansted Mountfitchet		Stansted Express Stansted Express		Terminus
Audley End		Greater Anglia West Anglia Main Line
Cambridge		CrossCountry Birmingham to Stansted Airport

References

External links

• Media related to Stansted Airport railway station at Wikimedia Commons

• Train times and station information for Stansted Airport railway station from National Rail
• Stansted Airport Trains