Chappel and Wakes Colne railway station
Chappel & Wakes Colne 
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Chappel & Wakes Colne railway station in 2011
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| Location | |
| Place | Wakes Colne |
| Local authority | Colchester |
| Grid reference | TL897288 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | CWC |
| Managed by | Abellio Greater Anglia |
| Number of platforms | 1 |
| DfT category | F2 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 38,082 |
| 2012/13 |
41,642 |
| 2013/14 |
47,976 |
| 2014/15 |
 42,868 |
| 2015/16 |
41,420 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Chappel & Wakes Colne from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Chappel & Wakes Colne railway station is on the Gainsborough Line, a branch off the Great Eastern Main Line to Sudbury, in the East of England, serving the village of Wakes Colne and the neighbouring Chappel. It is 50 miles 18 chains (80.8 km) down-line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between Marks Tey and Bures. Its three-letter station code is CWC.
The station is currently operated by Abellio Greater Anglia, which also runs all trains serving the station. It has one platform as the line is single-track. It is also home to the East Anglian Railway Museum which has the former London-bound platform, a running line, the original station buildings and all of the land and facilities on the east side of the line. Just to the south of the station the line runs over the Chappel viaduct.
Chappel & Wakes Colne is unstaffed and has no ticketing facilities, except a self-service ticket machine installed in April 2017. The platform buildings, on the station's west side, are restored to 1950s style but are part of the museum, and entered from ground-floor level.
The station opened with the opening of the line from Marks Tey to Sudbury as part of the Stour Valley Railway on 2 July 1849, with the name Chappel; it was renamed Chappel and Wakes Colne on 1 October 1914.
The 1861 census shows Samuel Hamblin as the resident station-master. He appears to have fallen foul of the railway authorities at some stage as he is shown working in Poplar as an engine driver in the 1871 census. The 1871 census records 29-year-old Alfred H. Bryant as the resident station-master. The 1881 census shows 45-year-old George William Grand as the station-master, a position he held until at least 1891.
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