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
LocationColwall, Herefordshire
England
Grid referenceSO756424
Managed byWest Midlands Trains
Platforms1
Other information
Station codeCWL
ClassificationDfT category F2
History
Opened1861
Passengers
2015/16 66,642
2016/17 60,870
2017/18 64,162
2018/19 62,146
 Interchange  26
2019/20 67,664
 Interchange  4
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

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. To the west lies Ledbury Tunnel and to the east, the Colwall Tunnels.

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]

As this station has a short platform, passengers can only alight at Colwall from the front 4 carriages of the train.

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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