Wilmcote railway station

Wilmcote railway station serves the village of Wilmcote, about 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England. The station is run by West Midlands Trains. It is served by both West Midlands Trains and Chiltern Railways trains.

Wilmcote
Wilmcote station.
LocationWilmcote, Stratford-on-Avon
England
Grid referenceSP167582
Managed byWest Midlands Trains
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeWMC
ClassificationDfT category F2
History
Opened1860 (rebuilt 1907)
Passengers
2015/16 23,976
2016/17 23,366
2017/18 24,248
2018/19 22,552
2019/20 23,418
Location
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

History

The original single platform Wilmcote station opened in October 1860, on the Stratford-upon-Avon Railway's branch line from Hatton to Stratford.[1]

The station was rebuilt slightly south of the original with two platforms in 1907, when the Great Western Railway doubled and upgraded this part of the branch line to main line standards, in order to incorporate it into the North Warwickshire Line, which created a new main line route between Birmingham and Cheltenham Spa.[1]

Services

North Warwickshire Line
Birmingham Snow Hill
Birmingham Moor Street
Bordesley
Small Heath
Tyseley TMD
Tyseley
Tyseley Junction
Spring Road
Hall Green
Yardley Wood
Shirley
Whitlocks End
Wythall
Earlswood
limit of TfWM area
The Lakes
Wood End
Danzey
Henley-in-Arden
Wootton Wawen
Bearley Junction
Leamington–Stratford line
Wilmcote
Stratford-upon-Avon
Parkway
Stratford-upon-Avon

West Midlands Trains serve Wilmcote with hourly local trains between Stratford-upon-Avon and Birmingham Snow Hill via Whitlocks End.[2] Most northbound trains continue to Stourbridge Junction on weekdays/Saturdays and Worcester Foregate Street on Sundays.

Chiltern Railways also serves Wilmcote, with 10 trains per day each way between Stratford-upon-Avon and Leamington Spa; three of these are through services that continue to London Marylebone on weekdays only.[3]

References

  1. "Wilmcote Station". Wawickshire Railways. Retrieved 6 December 2017.
  2. Table 71 National Rail timetable, May 2016
  3. Table 115 National Rail timetable, May 2016
Preceding station National Rail Following station
Bearley
Limited Service
  West Midlands Railway
Birmingham — Stratford via Solihull
  Stratford Parkway
Wootton Wawen   West Midlands Railway
Birmingham — Stratford-upon-Avon
 
Bearley   Chiltern Railways
Leamington — Stratford-upon-Avon
  Stratford Parkway


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