East of England
Essex
Braintree District

Braintree railway station

Braintree railway station is the northern terminus of the Braintree Branch Line in the , serving the town of . It is 44 miles 78 chains down the line from via ; the preceding station on the route is to the south.
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  • Type: Railway station
  • Description: railway station in Braintree, Braintree, Essex, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Braintree and Bocking”, “Braintree Railway Station”, “Braintree Station”, and “BTR”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Braintree Library and Warner Textile Archive.

Library
Photo: Oxyman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is situated 1,100 feet northwest of Braintree railway station.

Museum
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The is a UK-based collection of textiles, designs and paper records operated by Braintree District Museum Trust. It opened in 1993 and is the second-largest collection of publicly-owned textiles in the UK. is situated 1,100 feet west of Braintree railway station.

Railway station
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is on the Braintree Branch Line in the , serving the Braintree Village shopping centre. It is 44 miles 16 chains down the line from via and it is situated between to the south and Braintree to the north. is situated 3,400 feet southeast of Braintree railway station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Braintree and Tye Green.

Photo: Brenda Howard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a town in , . For a town of its size it boasts very few amenities. However, a shopping village on the outskirts, 'Freeport', has roughly 80 shops.

Hamlet
is a village in the civil parish of and the Braintree district of , England. In 2018, it had an estimated population of 1,114. is situated 1½ miles southeast of Braintree railway station.

Village
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Bocking is a suburban village on the northern side of , in , England. Bocking village was historically in two parts; the original settlement around the parish church became known as , while a separate linear settlement called Bocking grew up a little way to the south along Bradford Street and The Causeway, adjoining the northern edge of Braintree. is situated 2 miles north of Braintree railway station.

Braintree railway station

Latitude
51.87531° or 51° 52′ 31″ north
Longitude
0.55673° or 0° 33′ 24″ east
Elevation
161 feet (49 metres)
Operator
Greater Anglia
Network
National Rail
Abbreviation
“BTR”
Open location code
9F32VHG4+4M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1997260503
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­station
Open­Street­Map feature
railway=­station
Geo­Names ID
6952117
Wiki­data ID
Q2716690
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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Lithuanian—“Braintree railway station” goes by many names.
  • Dutch: “station Braintree”
  • Dutch: “Station Braintree”
  • French: “Braintree”
  • French: “gare de Braintree”
  • Italian: “stazione di Braintree”
  • Lithuanian: “Breintris”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Braintree railway station”. Photo: Brenda Howard, CC BY-SA 2.0.