2-887-657 - Historic England Archive/Heritage Images

Stansted Airport, Stansted, Stansted Mountfitchet, Uttlesford, Essex, 21/01/1991. The platform between the rails of the passenger transport shuttle at the new terminal building at Stansted Airport illuminated at night. Laing Management Contracting was appointed ‘consultant contractor’ for the Stansted development in October 1985. The development included new road access from the M11, a new rail link with London and the north, short and long term car parking, new taxiways and aprons, and a new terminal building with an automated passenger transit system. Work on site began in April 1986 and the new terminal, designed to accommodate 8 million passengers per year, opened in March 1991.