Great Bentley railway station
Great Bentley 
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Great Bentley railway station
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| Location | |
| Place | Great Bentley |
| Local authority | Tendring |
| Coordinates | 51°51′07″N 1°03′54″E / 51.852°N 1.065°ECoordinates: 51°51′07″N 1°03′54″E / 51.852°N 1.065°E |
| Grid reference | TM112214 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | GRB |
| Managed by | Abellio Greater Anglia |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | E |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 65,430 |
| 2012/13 |
 66,450 |
| 2013/14 |
64,075 |
| 2014/15 |
75,606 |
| 2015/16 |
74,710 |
| History | |
| 8 January 1866 | Opened as Bentley Green |
| 1877 | Renamed Great Bentley |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Great Bentley from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Great Bentley railway station is on the Sunshine Coast Line, a branch of the Great Eastern Main Line, in the East of England, serving the village of Great Bentley as well as the nearby settlements of Brightlingsea, Frating, Thorrington and St Osyth. It is 60 miles 66 chains (97.9 km) down-line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between Alresford to the west and Weeley to the east. Its three-letter station code is GRB.
The station was opened by the Tendring Hundred Railway, a subsidiary of the Great Eastern Railway, in 1866 with the name Bentley Green. It was renamed Great Bentley in 1877. It is currently managed by Greater Anglia, which also operates all trains serving the station.
In 1859 the Tendring Hundred Railway was formed to extend the branch line from Hythe to Wivenhoe, which opened on 8 May 1863 for both passenger and goods services from Colchester. By the time the Wivenhoe extension opened, the line was operated by the Great Eastern Railway (GER) which bought the line from the Tendring Hunded Railway in 1883.
The line was then extended to Weeley on 8 January 1866. Bentley Green station opened on the same day. It adopted its current name of Great Bentley in 1877.
Initially the station was served by a single track but the line was doubled between Great Bentley and Thorpe-le-Soken by the GER in 1891. The Wivenhoe to Great Bentley section was doubled in 1898.
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