Hereford railway station
Hereford 
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| Location | |
| Place | Hereford |
| Local authority | Herefordshire |
| Coordinates | 52°03′41″N 2°42′30″W / 52.0614°N 2.7083°WCoordinates: 52°03′41″N 2°42′30″W / 52.0614°N 2.7083°W |
| Grid reference | SO515405 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | HFD |
| Managed by | Arriva Trains Wales |
| Number of platforms | 4 |
| DfT category | C1 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 1.081 million |
| 2012/13 |
1.086 million |
| 2013/14 |
1.104 million |
| 2014/15 |
1.193 million |
| 2015/16 |
1.226 million |
| History | |
| Original company | Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway |
| Post-grouping | Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway |
| 6 December 1853 | Opened as Hereford Barr's Court |
| 1893 | Renamed Hereford |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Hereford from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Hereford railway station serves the city of Hereford, England. Managed by Arriva Trains Wales, it lies on the Welsh Marches Line between Leominster and Abergavenny, is the western terminus of the Cotswold Line and also has an hourly London Midland service from Birmingham. The station has four platforms for passenger trains, and two additional relief lines for goods services.
Accorded "Secure Station" status in 2004, the station has a staffed ticket office, self-service ticket machines, a café, and indoor waiting rooms. Automated ticket barriers have been in operation since 28 February 2006.
There were originally two stations in Hereford - Barton, and Barrs Court.
Barton (52°03′23″N 2°43′28″W / 52.0563°N 2.7245°W) lay to the west of the city and had been built by the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway (NA&HR). However, Barton was small and in a cramped location, and was not big enough nor could it be enlarged for the greater traffic that would entail from the arrival of the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway from the north.
The resolution was an agreement to create a new joint railway station to the north east of the city, called Hereford Barrs Court. This would be a joint standard gauge/broad gauge station, sponsored jointly by the standard-gauge Shrewsbury & Hereford Railway (S&HR) and the GWR-sponsored Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway (HR&GR). When the Midland Railway–sponsored Hereford, Hay and Brecon Railway entered the town, they were given access rights, as was the later GWR-sponsored extension of the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway, which joined the S&HR's route to the north of the city at Shelwick Junction.
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