Thorpe-le-Soken railway station

Thorpe-le-Soken
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 / 51.848; 1.162
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 (1866-01-08)	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
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

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.^[1] 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.