| Wivenhoe | |
| Symbol Location: | gb |
| Symbol: | rail |
| Borough: | Wivenhoe, Colchester |
| Country: | England |
| Coordinates: | 51.857°N 0.956°W |
| Grid Name: | Grid reference |
| Manager: | Greater Anglia |
| Platforms: | 2 |
| Code: | WIV |
| Classification: | DfT category E |
| Events: | Opened as Wivenhoe |
| Years1: | July 1879 |
| Events1: | Renamed Wyvenhoe |
| Years2: | October 1911 |
| Events2: | Renamed Wivenhoe |
| Footnotes: | Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Wivenhoe railway station is on the Sunshine Coast Line, a branch of the Great Eastern Main Line, in the East of England, serving the small town of Wivenhoe, Essex. It is 56miles down the line from London Liverpool Street[1] and is situated between Hythe to the west and Alresford to the east. Its three-letter station code is WIV.
The station was opened by the Tendring Hundred Railway, a subsidiary of the Great Eastern Railway, in 1863. It has two platforms, a staffed ticket office, and is currently operated by Abellio Greater Anglia, which also runs all trains serving the station.
It is a short distance from the River Colne at Wivenhoe quay and its car park is the starting point of the Wivenhoe Trail, a cycle track that runs alongside the river to Colchester.
Wivenhoe station was opened on 8 May 1863 by the Tendring Hundred Railway, which was worked by the Great Eastern Railway. From July 1879 its name was spelt Wyvenhoe; in October 1911 it reverted to the original spelling, Wivenhoe.[2]
A few hundred metres east of the station there was a junction for the single-track branch line to . This branch was opened in April 1866 and closed as part of the Beeching cuts in June 1964 and the tracks lifted. A bridge over Alresford Creek was also later demolished.
All services at Wivenhoe are operated by Greater Anglia using EMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
Additional services call at the station during the peak hours.
On Sundays, the services between Colchester and Walton-on-the-Naze do not run.