Colwall railway station

Colwall railway station is a railway station on the Cotswold Line serving the village of Colwall in Herefordshire, England. The station has one platform with seating. There is no ticket office; a passenger-operated Permit to Travel machine is installed, and there has been a ticket machine (for use with credit and debit cards only) since 2015.

Colwall
Location
PlaceColwall
Local authorityHerefordshire
Grid referenceSO756424
Operations
Station codeCWL
Managed byWest Midlands Trains
Number of platforms1
DfT categoryF2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 63,560
2015/16 66,642
2016/17 60,870
2017/18 64,172
2018/19 62,146
– Interchange  26
History
Key datesOpened 1861 (1861)
National Rail – UK railway stations
  • Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Colwall from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

The station was opened in 1861, the same year as the Hereford and Worcester Railway Line.

Today services are available direct to London Paddington, Birmingham and Hereford.

The station is close to the Colwall Park Hotel and the (now defunct) Malvern Water bottling plant.

Services

The station is served by two operators - West Midlands Trains run an hourly service to Hereford and Birmingham New Street via Worcester Foregate Street and Bromsgrove,[1] whilst GWR run a limited service between Hereford and London Paddington via Oxford.[2]

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References
  1. Table 71 National Rail timetable, December 2018
  2. Table 126 National Rail timetable, December 2018

Further reading
  • Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2004). Worcester to Hereford. West Sussex: Middleton Press. figs. 65-68. ISBN 9781904474388. OCLC 862604858.
Preceding station National Rail Following station
Ledbury   West Midlands Railway
Birmingham-Hereford		   Great Malvern
  West Midlands Railway
Dorridge-Hereford		  
  Great Western Railway
Cotswold Line		  


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