Full journey from London Liverpool Street to Stansted Airport via Tottenham Hale along the West Anglian Main Line on board a 12 carriage Greater Anglia Stansted Express class 745 FLIRT. This journey was filmed on Friday 15th October 2021 on the 0825 service which called at Tottenham Hale, Harlow Town and Bishops Stortford.
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London Liverpool Street (LST) (depart) 00:16
Bethnal Green (BET) 02:47
Cambridge Heath (CBH) 04:10
London Fields (LOF) 05:22
Hackney Downs (HAC) 06:18
Clapton (CPT) 08:07
Tottenham Hale (TOM) 11:16
Northumberland Park (NUM) 13:42
Meridian Water (MRW) 14:14
Ponders End (PON) 16:04
Brimsdown (BMD) 16:45
Enfield Lock (ENL) 17:35
Waltham Cross (WLC) 18:34
Cheshunt (CHN) 19:34
Broxbourne (BXB) 22:46
Roydon (RYN) 26:12
Harlow Town (HWN) 28:45
Harlow Hill (HWM) 32:00
Sawbridgeworth (SAW) 34:01
Bishops Stortford (BIS) 38:25
Stansted Mountfitchet (SST) 43:06
Stansted Airport (SSD) 48:18
Note at 06:14 Hackney Central is visible on the North London Line from Stratford to Richmond and Clapham Junction. Also at 14:21 is Angel Road station which closed when Meridian Water station was build as its replacement.
Services on the Stansted Express route operate every halt hour throughout the day with a 15 minute frequency at busier times. Tottenham Hale is served by all almost all Stansted Express services and off peak so are Harlow Town and Bishops Stortford with Stansted Mountfitchet being served once an hour. At peak times some stations are skipped and others like Cheshunt are served by the Airport Express services. Stansted Airport is also served by an hourly service to Norwich via Cambridge as well as a roughly hourly Cross Country service to Birmingham New Street via Peterborough and Leicester.
There are other Greater Anglia services operate on the WAML including 2 trains an hour to Cambridge North and stopping services to Bishops Stortford of which some start from Stratford instead of Liverpool Street. There is also the local Hertford East services as far as Broxbourne and the Meridian Water Stratford shuttle services. Between Liverpool Street and Hackney Downs the route is shared with the London Overground Lea Valley services with Chingford services sharing the route through Clapton. At Liverpool Street there is interchange with the London Underground Central, Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines as well as the Elizabeth Line (Crossrail).
The rolling stock on this route to Stansted Airport is usually 12 carriage class 745 Stadler FLIRT units which replaced the class 379 Electrostar on Airport services. Other Greater Anglia services on this route as well as limited Airport WAML services are the 5 carriage class 720 Aventra which replaced the class 317 units. At Stansted Airport services towards Cambridge are formed of class 745 FLIRT and 170 Turbostar trains.
This route is fully electrified throughout using overhead AC electrification. This route is mainly double track with the exception of the 4 track section through and south of Hackney Downs and 3 tracks between Tottenham Hale and Meridian Water. On the approach to Liverpool Street the West Anglian route runs alongside the 4 track Great Eastern Main Line to Norwich.
Journey sections:
London Liverpool Street to Tottenham Hale 00:00
Tottenham Hale to Cheshunt 12:39
Cheshunt to Harlow Town 19:37
Harlow Town to Bishops Stortford 30:08
Bishops Stortford to Stansted Mountfitchet 40:06
Stansted Mountfitchet to Stansted Airport 43:10
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