Archaeological assessment by Essex County Council of the Bishop's Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree Branch Railway, 2002 - EEX53412

The survey identified significant remaining elements relating to the railway. The most obvious of these is the linear nature of the route itself and the bridges. There are also numerous brick culverts channelling streams beneath the embankment. Excluding the working station at Braintree, all the main station buildings, with the exception of Great Dunmow, survive. Evidence of the impact of the railway on the pre-industrial landscape also survives in the form of crossing points, typically signified by gaps in the hedge line with concrete posts for hanging the gates, in some cases the wooden ground surfaces at level crossings also remain. Other remnants along the line include concrete signal cable conduit, and gradient posts, which are likely to date to a later phase of the railway.