Wivenhoe railway station
Wivenhoe railway station serves the town of Wivenhoe in Essex, England. It lies on the Sunshine Coast Line, a coastal branch of the Great Eastern Main Line. The station is about 56 miles from London Liverpool Street and sits between Hythe to the west and Alresford to the east. The station code is WIV. It has two platforms and a staffed ticket office. Trains serving the station are operated by Abellio Greater Anglia.
The station opened on 8 May 1863, built by the Tendring Hundred Railway, which was part of the Great Eastern Railway. In July 1879 the name was spelled Wyvenhoe, but in October 1911 it reverted to Wivenhoe. A short distance east of the station was a junction for the branch line to Brightlingsea; that branch opened in 1866 and closed in 1964, with tracks removed and the Alresford Creek bridge later demolished.
Today, all trains at Wivenhoe are run by Greater Anglia using Class 720 EMUs. The typical off-peak service runs to Colchester and Walton-on-the-Naze, with more trains during peak times. On Sundays, the Colchester–Walton-on-the-Naze service does not run.
The station is close to the River Colne at Wivenhoe quay, and its car park is the starting point of the Wivenhoe Trail, a cycle path along the river to Colchester. In recent years, passenger numbers have been in the hundreds of thousands each year.
This page was last edited on 3 February 2026, at 00:05 (CET).