[Source: Nick Catford and Darren Kitson]

A 1952 aerial view of Audley End station. The line to Cambridge is to the bottom left, as are Audley End and Littlebury tunnels, and to Liverpool Street towards the top right. The viaduct can just be discerned among the trees towards top right. The staggered platform arrangement and footbridge of the main line station are visible with the station building on the up side and Barnard's building beyond. Audley End's main line platforms had been extended in 1862 - the first of several extensions. Just above the centre of the image is the goods shed, the design of which is more apparent from this angle. The shed had been enlarged in 1858. A single wagon waits in front of the shed and ahead of the wagon can just be discerned the by-then-sole-remaining wagon turntable. The multi-chimney building left of centre is the Neville Arms. In the centre background is the Saffron Walden branch and the branch platform waiting shelter, with its two chimneys, can be seen to the left of Barnard's building. Close to the junction and on the Up side of the branch can be seen the grounded carriage body used as a store by the Signalling & Telecommunications Department. The carriage began life with the GNR in 1897 and is believed to have been a 6-wheel lavatory brake composite. Withdrawn in 1941 as LNER No.81994, its body was taken to Audley End where it went on to outlive the Saffron Walden branch. It was removed, probably demolished on-site, by1970. Opposite the carriage body and on the Down side of the main line can be seen Audley End Junction signal box. The tall chimney right of centre and the building at its foot but largely hidden was possibly a pumping station which stood on the site of, or was converted from part of, the one-time Audley End gasworks
Reproduced with the kind permission of Simmons Aerofilms Ltd