Blakedown railway station

Blakedown National Rail
Location
Place Blakedown
Local authority Wyre Forest
Grid reference SO880787
Operations
Station code BKD
Managed by West Midlands Trains
Number of platforms 2
DfT category F1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
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Annual rail passenger usage*
2012/13 Decrease 83,008
2013/14 Increase 89,252
2014/15 Increase 91,698
2015/16 Increase 97,028
2016/17 Decrease 95,164
History
1852
?

?		 Opened as Churchill
Renamed Churchill and Blakedown
Renamed to current name
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Blakedown from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Blakedown railway station serves the English village of Blakedown, Worcestershire. It was opened (as Churchill station) in 1852, and was later known as Churchill & Blakedown before adopting its current name (the signal box still uses the old name, as shown above).

The signal box

The station is unstaffed, with only a basic shelter on each platform. There is a level crossing immediately to the west of the platforms, and in the absence of a footbridge or subway this is also the only method for passengers to cross the tracks.

The platforms were lengthened in the 1990s to allow longer trains to call (see image - the hollow space and the white fence mark the extension). This is because Blakedown is within the Birmingham commuter band and usage increased.

Since August 2012 the signalling system has been altered, with the former signal box having been abolished and control of the nearby crossing and signals transferred to the West Midlands SCC at Saltley.

Services

One Chiltern Railways Kidderminster-London service per weekday calls at Blakedown, at 08:13, as of the 2017 timetable.

In 2017, trains run every 30 minutes each way, with off-peak trains terminating at Kidderminster westbound, and eastbound services running alternately to Dorridge and Whitlocks End. Through services are available to both Worcester stations at peak periods. There is a two-hourly service from the station each way on Sundays, with through trains to and from Worcester.[1]

The station in 1983

References

  1. ↑ Table 71 National Rail timetable, May 2016

Further reading

  • Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2007). Worcester to Birmingham. Middleton Press. figs. 42-44. ISBN 9781904474975. OCLC 263292710.
Preceding station National Rail Following station
Hagley   West Midlands Railway
Leamington-Worcester		   Kidderminster
Hagley   Chiltern Railways
London-Kidderminster		   Kidderminster

Coordinates: 52°24′22″N 2°10′34″W / 52.406°N 2.176°W / 52.406; -2.176


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