Colwall railway station

Colwall National Rail
Location
Place Colwall
Local authority Herefordshire
Grid reference SO756424
Operations
Station code CWL
Managed by West Midlands Trains
Number of platforms 1
DfT category F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2012/13 Decrease 63,374
– Interchange  Increase 85
2013/14 Increase 65,210
– Interchange  Decrease 15
2014/15 Decrease 63,560
– Interchange  Increase 18
2015/16 Increase 66,642
– Interchange  Decrease 0
2016/17 Decrease 60,870
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.
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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.

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.

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
 

Coordinates: 52°04′48″N 2°21′25″W / 52.080°N 2.357°W / 52.080; -2.357


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