Stansted Airport railway station

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Stansted Airport
General information
Location	London Stansted Airport, District of Uttlesford England
Grid reference	TL556235
Managed by	Greater Anglia
Platforms	3
Other information
Station code	SSD
Classification	DfT category B
History
Opened	1991
Original company	British Rail
Passengers
2019/20	8.475 million
Interchange	2,938
2020/21	0.795 million
Interchange	445
2021/22	3.369 million
Interchange	1,479
2022/23	7.906 million
Interchange	2,583
2023/24	9.281 million
Interchange	2,109
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

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.

The short branch line was constructed at a cost of £44 million and opened by British Rail to coincide with the completion of the airport's new terminal building.^[1] With over 9 million passengers from 2023-2024, it is the busiest station in Essex, the second busiest in the East of England, and the sixteenth busiest in the country outside of London.^[2]