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Interior of the Stansted Express Class 379. In 1986, British Rail (BR) extended the electrification of the West Anglia Main Line from Bishop's Stortford to Cambridge.Included in this plan was the construction of a new branch line—diverging from a triangular junction at Stansted Mountfitchet—to serve Stansted Airport, at which a new terminal was to open in 1991 providing for a large ...
A key service that the type was procured for was the Stansted Express, from which National Express East Anglia was reportedly deriving roughly 20 percent of its revenue from operating. [1] The trains were manufactured at Bombardier Transportation Derby Litchurch Lane Works; the first unit was formally unveiled on 13 October 2010. [15]
In 2009, National Express East Anglia received 17 Class 321s transferred from London Midland. Another franchise commitment was the procurement of new stock for the Stansted Express service. This resulted in 30 four-carriage Class 379 Electrostars being ordered; the first entered service in March 2011. [20]
Express services from Liverpool Street to Stansted Airport are operated by Stansted Express, a sub-brand of Greater Anglia. Services from Stansted Airport to Cambridge (and onward to Birmingham New Street via Peterborough) are operated by CrossCountry. The line is part of the Network Rail Strategic Route 5, which comprises SRS 05.01 and part of ...
The original interior of a Stansted Express Class 322. In 1987 British Rail (BR) was extending electrification north from London Liverpool Street towards Cambridge.Included in this plan was the construction of new branch line, diverging from the main line at Stansted Mountfitchet, to serve the newly built Stansted Airport station, which opened in 1991.
The East Anglia franchise is a railway franchise for passenger trains on the Great Eastern Main Line and West Anglia Main Lines in England. It commenced operation in April 2004 when the Anglia and Great Eastern franchises, together with the West Anglia part of the West Anglia Great Northern franchise, were combined to form the Greater Anglia franchise.
Greater Anglia (legal name Transport UK East Anglia Limited) [3] is a British train operating company owned as a joint venture by Transport UK Group and Mitsui & Co.It operates the East Anglia franchise, providing the commuter and inter-city services from its central London terminus at London Liverpool Street to Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk and parts of Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire, as well as ...
Stansted Airport railway station is a railway station serving London Stansted Airport in Essex, England. The terminus of a dedicated branch line off the West Anglia Main Line , the station is 36 miles 67 chains (59.3 km) down the line from London Liverpool Street station , to which a dedicated service called the Stansted Express operates.