Woodham Ferrers Railway Station (EHER 40544)

Later 19th century (around 1889) railway station built by the Great Eastern Railway as part of the Southminster branch Summary from record 40941: Station on the Shenfield to Southminster railway line Summary from record 48620: Woodham Ferrers Station Summary from record 40544: South Woodham Ferrers Station

Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import. Woodham Ferrers Station was built following an Act of 1883 which empowered the GER to construct a railway line from Shenfield to Southend with a branch from Wickford to Southminster and another branch from Woodham Ferrers to Maldon. These were called the 'New Essex Lines'. The stretch of the line from Wickford to Southminster was opened on the 1st June 1889. The main engineering contractor for the construction of the Southminster branch was Walter Scott and Co. All the stations were built to a standard pattern and each equipped with as a minimum a goods yard, passing loop and signal box. Woodham Ferrers station was situated at the junction of the Wickford to Southminster branch and the branch to Maldon. Originally a large station with two platforms linked by a lattice work pedestrian bridge, with a goods yard on the downside and a loco yard and turntable on the upside. During a programme of works which saw the mass reduction of station buildings across the network, the up platform, buildings, signal box and footbridge were removed . The only remaining building is the Station house, of which only part is used as a ticket office, plus the original canopy with ornate cast-iron posts. Although South Woodham Ferrers New Town was built in 1975, the station buildings remain in a semi-redundant state. <1> South Woodham Ferrers Station consisted of a platform on north side of single track, red brick, and canopy, 1889, over platform supported on iron brackets. There was a booking Office window on the platform side. The south platform covered in turf. Sidings and buildings, cattle pen, turntable, signal box and footbridge, O.S. map, around 1898, not extant. The chimneyed station building, O.S. map, around 1898, to the N of the canopied platform, footbridge and booking office are no longer extant. ARCHAEOLOGICAL POTENTIAL Good SITE SIGNIFICANCE Much structural reduction occurred c.1968. CURRENT STATUS Being maintained as a functional station. RECOMMENDED ACTION Monitor and record any development. GRADE * <1> Additional references <2> <3> <4>