History
The station was opened on 8 May 1863 by the Wivenhoe and Brightlingsea Railway, which was worked by the Great Eastern Railway. Between July 1879 and October 1911 the name was spelled Wyvenhoe, after which it reverted to the original spelling Wivenhoe.
A few hundred metres east of the station there was a junction for the single-track branch line to Brightlingsea. This branch was opened in 1866 and closed as part of the Beeching cuts in 1964 and the tracks lifted. The bridge over Alresford Creek was later demolished.
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