 The line was single track with passing loops at Bishop's Stortford, , , and .Goods sidings were provided at , Takeley, to supply US Air Force bases at Stansted and Easton Lodge), , for general and use by the sugar beet factory, and Rayne.A viaduct crossed the River Chelmer to the south of Great Dunmow; it was demolished in the 1970s to make way for the A1256 Great Dunmow bypass.