Witham railway station

Witham railway station is a railway station serving the town of Witham in Essex, England. The station is located on the Great Eastern Main Line and is also the junction of the Witham-Braintree line. The branch junction faces west (towards London), thus permitting through running between London and Braintree.The station is located approximately half a mile to the north of the town centre.The station is served by Abellio Greater Anglia. All off-peak services are operated by Class 321, Class 360 and very occasionally Class 315 electrical multiple units for Braintree, Colchester Town, Clacton and Ipswich services.Station layoutPlatform 1 is disused except for peak hour services to and from London starting or terminating at the station, a few through trains to London use this platform as well. (This platform used to be used by trains serving the now dismantled branch line to Maldon.) Platform 2 is for services to London. Platform 3 is for services to Colchester and beyond. Platform 4 is the Braintree platform, where services start from or terminate here on Sundays or run to and from London on Monday to Saturday.The station car park is situated next to the station. To access the car park from the station passengers used to have to exit onto the street and take a substantial walk to the road bridge across the tracks situated just past the western end of the station, over the bridge and then down a residential road the other side of the tracks. Station users have been campaigning for a remedy to this issue for many years. In November 2001 funding was announced to build a direct footbridge from the station to the car park, but this was subsequently withdrawn indefinitely in financial cutbacks following the collapse of Railtrack. Reports of a new funding package for a footbridge emerged in 2008.