Chelmsford railway station
Chelmsford 
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Chelmsford railway station, including its disused signal box above the platform canopy
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| Location | |
| Place | Chelmsford |
| Local authority | City of Chelmsford |
| Grid reference | TL705070 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | CHM |
| Managed by | Abellio Greater Anglia |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | C1 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 7.877 million |
| – Interchange |
53,886 |
| 2012/13 |
8.002 million |
| – Interchange |
57,012 |
| 2013/14 |
8.287 million |
| – Interchange |
 53,422 |
| 2014/15 |
8.381 million |
| – Interchange |
53,102 |
| 2015/16 |
8.488 million |
| – Interchange |
59,936 |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 1843 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Chelmsford from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Chelmsford railway station is on the Great Eastern Main Line in the East of England, serving the city of Chelmsford, Essex. It is 29 miles 60 chains (47.9 km) down-line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between Ingatestone to the west and Hatfield Peverel and to the east. Its three-letter station code is CHM.
It is currently operated by Abellio Greater Anglia, which also runs all trains serving the station. Trains at Chelmsford run to a number of destinations including Liverpool Street in the London-bound direction, and Braintree, Clacton-on-Sea, Colchester, Harwich Town, Ipswich, Norwich and Witham in the eastbound direction.
When the Eastern Counties Railway (ECR) opened the line between Brentwood and Colchester in 1843 due to the geography of Chelmsford an 18-arch viaduct had to be built across what is now the town park. The first Chelmsford station was built slightly to the north of the current station. A three-storey building on today's site was constructed in 1885 by the Great Eastern Railway (GER), into which the ECR had been merged. The present station building dates from a rebuild in 1985 and a further rebuild completed in 2016, which saw the main concourse and ticket office rebuilt and a new staircase added to serve the London bound platform, to replace the original flying staircases installed as part of the 1985 rebuild. Since the railway is elevated on a viaduct the platforms are above street-level.
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