Audley End railway station
Audley End 
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Audley End railway station in July 2012
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| Location | |
| Place | Wendens Ambo |
| Local authority | District of Uttlesford |
| Coordinates | 52°00′16″N 0°12′26″E / 52.0045°N 0.2073°ECoordinates: 52°00′16″N 0°12′26″E / 52.0045°N 0.2073°E |
| Grid reference | TL516363 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | AUD |
| Managed by | Abellio Greater Anglia |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | D |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.751 million |
| – Interchange |
5,392 |
| 2012/13 |
0.811 million |
| – Interchange |
 4,986 |
| 2013/14 |
0.839 million |
| – Interchange |
5,243 |
| 2014/15 |
0.879 million |
| – Interchange |
6,887 |
| 2015/16 |
0.929 million |
| – Interchange |
6,317 |
| History | |
| 30 July 1845 | Station opens as Wenden |
| 1 November 1848 | Name changed to Audley End |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Audley End from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Audley End railway station serves the village of Wendens Ambo and the town of Saffron Walden. The station is named after the manor of Audley End in Essex, England. There was a platform at the east end of the station (52°00′15″N 0°12′28″E / 52.0043°N 0.2077°E) for the branch line to Saffron Walden that was closed in 1964.
The station was opened in 1845 by the Eastern Counties Railway, which was absorbed into the Great Eastern Railway, and became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the grouping of 1923. The station passed on to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.
The station was served by Network SouthEast when BR sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, until it was privatised.
Audley End station's name was changed on signs to Audley End for Saffron Walden in 2012. Sir Alan Haselhurst, MP for Saffron Walden unveiled the re-branded signs on Friday 25 May.
The station has an off-peak service of two trains per hour southbound to London Liverpool Street and northbound to Cambridge. One of these is a stopping train calling at most intermediate stations in either direction (London-bound trains run fast south of Cheshunt calling only at Tottenham Hale before terminating at Liverpool Street), whilst the other is a semi-fast service calling only at Bishops Stortford, Harlow Town, Broxbourne, Cheshunt and Tottenham Hale southbound and Whittlesford Parkway northbound. Additional services call at peak times. The hourly CrossCountry service between Stansted Airport and Birmingham New Street via Peterborough and Leicester stops here and is supplemented by a roughly hourly Greater Anglia service running between Cambridge and Stansted Airport.
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