Ely railway station
Ely railway station is on the Fen line in the east of England, serving the cathedral city of Ely, Cambridgeshire. It is 70 miles 30 chains (113.3 km) from London Liverpool Street and is situated between Waterbeach and Littleport stations on the Fen line to King's Lynn. It is an important junction for three other lines: the Ely to Peterborough Line, the Ipswich to Ely Line and the Norwich to Ely line.
Ely | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Location | Ely, East Cambridgeshire England |
| Grid reference | TL542793 |
| Managed by | Greater Anglia |
| Platforms | 3 |
| Other information | |
| Station code | ELY |
| Classification | DfT category D |
| History | |
| Opened | 1845. |
| Passengers | |
| 2018/19 | 2.387 million |
| Interchange | 0.466 million |
| 2019/20 | 2.364 million |
| Interchange | 0.416 million |
| 2020/21 | 0.577 million |
| Interchange | 74,729 |
| 2021/22 | 1.635 million |
| Interchange | 0.273 million |
| 2022/23 | 1.894 million |
| Interchange | 0.345 million |
| Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road | |
Ely is a busy station with trains running to a variety of destinations including London, Cambridge, King's Lynn, Birmingham, Nottingham, Sheffield, Manchester and Liverpool. It is managed by Greater Anglia, which is also one of four train operators that serve the station the others are Great Northern, CrossCountry and East Midlands Railway.
The station was opened in 1845 by the Eastern Counties Railway at a cost of £81,500; the land on which it was built being a marshy swamp. The station was modified substantially by British Rail in the early 1990s, at the time that electrification of the line was taking place.