Ely railway station

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	30 July 1845.[1]
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 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 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 being Great Northern, CrossCountry and East Midlands Railway.

The station was opened on 30 July 1845 by the Eastern Counties Railway at a cost of £81,500; the land on which it was built being a marshy swamp.^[2] The station was modified substantially by British Rail in the early 1990s, at the time that electrification of the line was taking place.