Malvern Link railway station

Malvern Link railway station serves Malvern Link in Worcestershire, England.[1] It is one of two stations serving the town of Malvern, the other being Great Malvern station.[2]

Malvern Link
Location
PlaceMalvern Link
Local authorityMalvern Hills
Grid referenceSO782474
Operations
Station codeMVL
Managed byWest Midlands Railway
Number of platforms2
DfT categoryE
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 0.314 million
2015/16 0.344 million
2016/17 0.354 million
2017/18 0.349 million
2018/19 0.355 million
National Rail – UK railway stations
  • Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Malvern Link from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

History

A six-mile railway from Henwick to Malvern Link opened in July 1859; in May 1860 the line was extended onward to Great Malvern and Malvern Wells.[3]

Most of the original station buildings (on the down (eastern) side) had to be demolished in the 1960s after falling into poor repair, though the station house has survived.

Development

A set of improvements, funded by Worcestershire County Council, Network Rail and the Railway Heritage Trust, was carried out in 2014 to replace the wooden 1960s station building and provide a new entrance to the up platform from Osborne Road. In 2015 these improvements were awarded the Malvern Civic Society's Civic Award.[4][5]

Services

The station is located on the Cotswold Line and served by West Midlands Railway and Great Western Railway.[6] Trains run westbound to Great Malvern and Hereford and eastbound to Worcester Foregate Street; from the latter, destinations served include Oxford, Reading, London Paddington, Birmingham New Street via Bromsgrove, Bristol Temple Meads and Westbury, and Whitlocks End via Kidderminster and Birmingham Snow Hill.

References
  1. "Malvern Link Station". 28 November 2010. Retrieved 24 December 2010.
  2. "Getting to Malvern - MalvernTrail". 5 August 2010. Retrieved 24 December 2010.
  3. Simpson (1997). The day the trains came. Gracewing. p. 93.
  4. "Malvern Link station improvements". Worcestershire County Council. 2013. Archived from the original on 7 July 2013.
  5. "Link railway station wins top award from Malvern Civic Society". Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  6. Table 71 Network Rail Timetable December 2015

Further reading
  • Siviter, Roger (1999). British Railways Past and Present: Worcestershire. Kettering: Past & Present Publications Ltd.
  • Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2004). Worcester to Hereford. Middleton Press. figs. 48-50. ISBN 9781904474388. OCLC 862604858.
Preceding station National Rail Following station
Great Malvern   West Midlands Railway
Birmingham-Hereford/Great Malvern		   Worcester Foregate Street
  West Midlands Railway
Great Malvern-Dorridge/Whitlocks End		  
  Great Western Railway
Cotswold Line		  
  Great Western Railway
Great Malvern - Bristol		  
Disused railways
Great Malvern
Line and station open		   Great Western Railway
Worcester and Hereford Railway		   Newland Halt
Line open, station closed


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