Evesham railway station

Evesham railway station is in the town of Evesham in Worcestershire, England. It is between Honeybourne and Pershore stations on the Cotswold Line between Oxford and Hereford via Worcester and Great Malvern. It is operated by Great Western Railway. Trains to London Paddington take about 1 hour 45 minutes. It is one of the few railway stations in the United Kingdom to have shown a steady (if relatively small) decline in use since 2004 (see usage figures, below right).

Evesham
HST Class 43 at Evesham railway station
Location
Place	Evesham
Local authority	Wychavon
Coordinates	52.0979°N 1.9474°W / 52.0979; -1.9474
Grid reference	SP037444
Operations
Station code	EVE
Managed by	Great Western Railway
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	E
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15	0.248 million
– Interchange	352
2015/16	0.255 million
– Interchange	343
2016/17	0.258 million
– Interchange	473
2017/18	0.247 million
– Interchange	543
2018/19	0.234 million
– Interchange	582
History
Original company	Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
1 May 1852 (1852-05-01)	opened
National Rail – UK railway stations
Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Evesham from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

History

A 1904 Railway Clearing House Junction Diagram showing (centre) railways in the Evesham area. The present station is that on the yellow line, marked G.W.

The first major section of the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway (OWW), between Evesham and Stourbridge Junction, opened to public traffic on 3 May 1852, the opening ceremony having been held on 1 May.[1][2] Evesham was a terminus for just over a year, until the last major section of the OWW, from Evesham to Wolvercot Junction (to the north of Oxford), was opened on 4 June 1853.[3] The OWW became the West Midland Railway in 1860,[4] which in turn merged with the Great Western Railway in 1863.[5]

Facing the present (former OWW) station across the car park is the former Midland Railway station of 1864 by the architect George Hunt on the Ashchurch to Barnt Green Evesham loop line, which closed to passenger traffic in June 1963 and completely a year later.[6] The original timber buildings from this station were taken to build Monsal Dale railway station in Derbyshire; the replacement stone structure still stands and is used for office accommodation. The rest of the site has been redeveloped as a housing estate.

Services

Before December 2019, services at Evesham were irregular with gaps of between 40 mins and 2 hours between services.[7]

As of December 2019, Great Western Railway now provide a more regular service to the station. The current off-peak service in trains per hour is:

• 1 tph to London Paddington
• 1 tph to Worcester Foregate Street of which some continue to Great Malvern and Hereford

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Pershore		Great Western Railway Cotswold Line		Honeybourne
	Historical railways
Fladbury Line open, station closed		Great Western Railway Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway		Littleton and Badsey Line open, station closed
	Disused railways
Bengeworth Line and station closed		Midland Railway Evesham loop line		Harvington Line and station closed

References

The former Midland Railway station seen on 27 September 1962 with the 1138 Redditch to Ashchurch train

1. Jenkins & Quayle 1977, pp. 29–30.
2. Butt 1995, p. 93.
3. Jenkins & Quayle 1977, p. 36.
4. Jenkins & Quayle 1977, p. 63.
5. Jenkins & Quayle 1977, p. 66.
6. Catford, Nick. "Evesham (Midland)". Disused Stations. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
7. GB Rail Timetable 2013–14, Table 126

Sources

Down local train at the former OWW station in 1959

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
• Jenkins, Stanley C; Quayle, HL (1977). The Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway. The Oakwood Library of Railway History. Blandford: Oakwood Press. OL40.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2006). Cheltenham to Redditch. Middleton Press. figs. 44-54. ISBN 9781904474814. OCLC 851839542.

External links

Railway lines in Worcestershire
Kidderminster line to Birmingham Snow Hill Cross-City Line to Birmingham New Street Hagley Birmingham–Stratford line to Birmingham Moor Street Wythall Blakedown Birmingham–Stratford line to Stratford-upon-Avon Barnt Green Kidderminster Town Kidderminster Blackwell Alvechurch Foley Park Halt Lickey Incline Bewdley Tunnel Redditch Rifle Range Halt Stourport-on-Severn Gloucester loop line via Alcester Hartlebury Bromsgrove Bewdley Cutnall Green Halt Stoke Works Northwood Halt Droitwich Spa Junction Wyre Forest Droitwich Spa Arley Newnham Bridge Fernhill Heath Severn Valley Railway to Bridgnorth Blackpole Halt Easton Court Astwood Halt Tenbury and Bewdley Railway to Woofferton Droitwich Road Worcester Tunnel Junction Dunhampstead Worcester TMD Oddingley Spetchley Vinegar works Worcester Shrub Hill Worcester Foregate Street Norton Worcestershire Parkway Stoulton Former freight branch Gloucester loop line via Alcester River Severn Abbot's Wood Junction Pershore Henwick Wadborough Boughton Halt Wyre Halt Rushwick Halt Defford Leigh Court Fladbury Knightwick Harvington Bransford Road Eckington Suckley Bredon Newland Halt Bengeworth Worcester, Bromyard & Leominster Rly to Leominster Evesham Malvern Link Hinton Great Malvern Ashton-under-Hill Malvern Hanley Road Beckford Malvern Wells Upton-on-Severn Ripple Littleton and Badsey Honeybourne Line to Stratford-upon-Avon Cotswold Line to Hereford Honeybourne Ashchurch for Tewkesbury Cross Country Route to Cheltenham Spa Cotswold Line to Oxford Broadway Gloucestershire Warwickshire Rly to Cheltenham Racecourse

• Train times and station information for Evesham railway station from National Rail
• Evesham Station on navigable 1946 O.S. map