The Great Eastern Main Line
The Great Eastern Main Line links 29 stations, with a top line speed of 100 mph.
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The line in numbers
| Track | about 242 miles, counting every running line |
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| Stations | 29 |
| Top line speed | 100 mph |
| Passengers a year | 246.2 million entries and exits across its stations |
| Engineer's Line Reference | LTN1, LTN2, LTN |
No end-to-end length is given for this line because OpenStreetMap applies its name to several separate stretches of track, so any figure measured from the map data would be a fragment of the real route rather than the whole of it.
Stations on this line
- Diss701,420 a year
- Stowmarket975,908 a year
- Needham Market129,588 a year
- Ipswich3.4 million a year
- Manningtree1.0 million a year
- Colchester3.6 million a year
- Marks Tey474,352 a year
- Kelvedon599,812 a year
- Witham1.9 million a year
- Hatfield Peverel361,514 a year
- Beaulieu Park
- Chelmsford7.0 million a year
- Ingatestone779,214 a year
- Shenfield5.8 million a year
- Brentwood3.2 million a year
- Harold Wood3.6 million a year
- Gidea Park3.0 million a year
- Romford12.1 million a year
- Chadwell Heath4.9 million a year
- Goodmayes4.8 million a year
- Seven Kings4.1 million a year
- Ilford10.9 million a year
- Manor Park4.4 million a year
- Forest Gate5.8 million a year
- Maryland4.1 million a year
- Stratford51.5 million a year
- Bethnal Green1.6 million a year
- Shoreditch High Street7.3 million a year
- London Liverpool Street98.0 million a year
The busiest station on the line is London Liverpool Street, 98.0 million entries and exits a year and 1st busiest in Britain.
Freight on this line, hour by hour
Freight is booked over the Great Eastern Main Line on 1,591 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 290 paths on the Wednesday, 219 paths on the Saturday and 4 paths on the Sunday. 116 of them run whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move. The busiest hour is 05:00 to 06:00 on the Saturday, with 38 paths booked.
The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 12 October 2026: the darker the hour, the more paths, and a dot marks an hour with at least one path that runs regardless. Engineering trains, empty stock and light engines are not counted. Across Britain only about a fifth of booked freight paths run on a given day, so a booked path is a possibility rather than a promise; the freight statistics page explains how that is measured.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
Lines it meets
Braintree Branch Line, East London Line, Elizabeth Line, High Speed 1, Lea Valley Lines, Liberty Line, Manningtree and Harwich Line, North London Line, Shenfield to Southend Line, Sudbury Branch Line, West Anglia Main Line.
Passenger figures are the Office of Rail and Road's estimates of station usage for 2024-25, added up across the stations on this line. They count entries and exits at those stations rather than journeys along the line, and a station served by more than one line is counted for each of them.
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