Thorpe-le-Soken railway station
Eastbound view from Platform 1 as seen in May 2008 | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Thorpe-le-Soken, Tendring England | ||||
| Coordinates | 51°50′53″N 1°09′43″E / 51.848°N 1.162°E | ||||
| Grid reference | TM178212 | ||||
| Managed by | Greater Anglia | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | TLS | ||||
| Classification | DfT category E | ||||
| History | |||||
| Original company | Tendring Hundred Railway | ||||
| Pre-grouping | Great Eastern Railway | ||||
| Post-grouping | London and North Eastern Railway | ||||
| Key dates | |||||
| 8 January 1866 | Opened as Thorpe | ||||
| 1 March 1900 | Renamed Thorpe-le-Soken | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2019/20 | 0.135 million | ||||
| Interchange | 0.271 million | ||||
| 2020/21 | 32,264 | ||||
| Interchange | 72,866 | ||||
| 2021/22 | 95,582 | ||||
| Interchange | 0.192 million | ||||
| 2022/23 | 0.119 million | ||||
| Interchange | 0.229 million | ||||
| 2023/24 | 0.132 million | ||||
| Interchange | 0.270 million | ||||
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Thorpe-le-Soken railway station is on the Sunshine Coast Line, a branch of the Great Eastern Main Line, in the East of England, serving the village of Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex. It is 65 miles 7 chains (104.7 km) down the line from London Liverpool Street. Its three-letter station code is TLS. To the west the preceding station is Weeley and to the east the following stations are Clacton-on-Sea on the single-stop Clacton branch or Kirby Cross on the branch to Walton-on-the-Naze.
The station was opened by the Tendring Hundred Railway, a subsidiary of the Great Eastern Railway, in 1866. It is currently managed by Greater Anglia, which also operates all trains serving the station.