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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 ...
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.
British Rail Class 317. Specifications as at November 1988, [ 4] except where otherwise noted. The British Rail Class 317 is an electric multiple unit (EMU) passenger train constructed by British Rail Engineering Limited in two batches: 48 sets were produced in 1981–82 and 24 sets in 1985–87.
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 operating 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 ...
Stansted Airport railway station is on a branch line off the West Anglia Main Line in the East of England and was opened in 1991 to provide a rail link to London Stansted Airport. It is 36 miles 67 chains (59.3 km) down the line from London Liverpool Street station , to which a frequent dedicated service called the Stansted Express operates.
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 ...
The British Rail Class 379 Electrostar is an electric multiple unit (EMU) passenger train which was designed and built by Bombardier Transportation. The trains are part of the company's extensive Electrostar family. The Class 379 was specifically procured in response to a government white paper issued in 2007, under which £185 million of ...
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 ...