Lapworth railway station

Lapworth railway station serves the village of Kingswood, Warwickshire, near the village of Lapworth from which it takes its name. It has two platforms connected by a footbridge. Most trains are those provided by Chiltern on its London Marylebone/Leamington Spa/Birmingham Snow Hill/Kidderminster route, but these are augmented by a few West Midlands Trains services.

Lapworth
Lapworth station platforms.
Location
PlaceLapworth
Local authorityDistrict of Warwick
Coordinates52.3420°N 1.7257°W / 52.3420; -1.7257
Grid referenceSP187716
Operations
Station codeLPW
Managed byChiltern Railways
Number of platforms2
DfT categoryF1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 31,064
2015/16 35,586
2016/17 46,224
2017/18 52,804
2018/19 72,774
History
Original companyGreat Western Railway
Pre-groupingGreat Western Railway
Post-groupingGreat Western Railway
1854Opened as Kingswood
1 May 1902Renamed Lapworth
National Rail – UK railway stations
  • Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Lapworth from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

History

The station was opened by the Great Western Railway in 1854.[1] It was known as Kingswood until 1 May 1902 when the name was changed to Lapworth[2] to avoid confusion with the station of the same name in Surrey. From 1894, Lapworth was the starting point of a short lived branch line to Henley-in-Arden. The branch was closed as an economy measure during the First World War in 1915, and never reopened.[3]

A footbridge spans the remaining two tracks, and continues to the west of the northbound platform spanning where quadruple tracks once existed. For a brief period prior to the lifting of the quadruple tracks there was a DMU service along what had been the GWR's Paddington - Birkenhead main line. It plied between Wellington (Shropshire) and Lapworth stopping at all the intermediate stations and linking them with Wolverhampton Low Level and Birmingham Snow Hill.

The station is unstaffed; ticketing is restricted to a 'Permit-to-Travel' machine located at the main entrance to the station (off Station Lane) at the north end of the London-bound (southbound) platform. The station can also be accessed via a footpath from Mill Lane.

Accidents and incidents

Services

The station has a basic two-hourly service in each direction in the current timetable, provided by the Chiltern Railways Leamington Spa to Birmingham Moor Street service. In peak hours this is augmented by some additional West Midlands Trains services to/from Leamington, giving through links to Stourbridge Junction and Kidderminster, and during weekdays two trains a day go to Stratford-upon-Avon. On Sundays a two-hourly service operates, but with through services to and from London Marylebone.[6]

References
  1. Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 135. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. Butt 1995, pp. 135, 138
  3. "Henley-in-Arden - Original Station". Warwickshire Railways. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
  4. "Light at the end of the tunnel for Severn 'Prairie'". Steam Railway. Peterborough: Bauer Consumer Media Ltd (455): 40–42. 17 June 2016. ISSN 0143-7232.
  5. "Four killed and 50 injured in train crash". The Times (51243). London. 1 December 1948. col A-B, p. 4.
  6. GB National Rail Timetable 2016, Table 71
Preceding station National Rail Following station
Dorridge   West Midlands Railway
Worcester - Leamington Spa		   Hatton
Limited Service
  West Midlands Railway
Birmingham — Stratford via Solihull		   Claverdon
Limited Service
Dorridge   Chiltern Railways
London-Birmingham		   Hatton
Disused railways
Terminus   Great Western Railway
Birmingham and Henley in Arden Railway		   Henley-in-Arden
Line closed, station open
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