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Wickford railway station is on the Shenfield to Southend Line and is also the western terminus of the Crouch Valley Line in the east of England, serving the town of Wickford in the Basildon district of Essex. It is down-line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between to the west and, to the east on the Southend Line and on the Crouch Valley Line. Its three-letter station code is WIC. The vast majority of services on both lines connect to the Great Eastern Main Line at for Liverpool Street. Wickford station and all trains serving it are currently operated by Abellio Greater Anglia. The station was previously called Wickford Junction when the Crouch Valley route to also included a branch to and more agricultural traffic passed through the station. == Description == Wickford station comprises two main line platforms (platform 2 for eastbound services and 3 for westbound services towards London), and two branch line bay platforms (numbers 1 and 4) at the eastern end of the station. At the London end of the station there once was a goods yard and turntable for steam locomotives; a couple of sidings remain here for storing engineering vehicles or failed trains, but much of the railway land here is now in use as a car park for passengers. The signal box that was formerly located at the end of platforms 3 and 4, before the bridge crossing Wickford High Street, was demolished in the early 1990s following the introduction of new signalling controlled from Liverpool Street. The upper floor of the original Great Eastern Railway station buildings on platforms 1 and 2 were destroyed by fire in the late 1990s, however, the ground floor (including the ticket office, waiting room and staff accommodation) was saved and remains in use. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wickford railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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