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Honeybourne railway station

Honeybourne National Rail
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FGW 43164 leads a Paddington to Hereford service through Platform 1 in July 2013.
Location
Place Honeybourne
Local authority Wychavon
Coordinates 52°06′04″N 1°50′06″W / 52.101°N 1.835°W / 52.101; -1.835Coordinates: 52°06′04″N 1°50′06″W / 52.101°N 1.835°W / 52.101; -1.835
Grid reference SP114448
Operations
Station code HYB
Managed by Great Western Railway
Number of platforms 2
DfT category F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2011/12 Increase 41,732
2012/13 Increase 47,788
2013/14 Increase 51,400
2014/15 Increase 56,178
2015/16 Increase 57,978
History
Original company Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway
Pre-grouping Great Western Railway
Post-grouping Great Western Railway
4 June 1853 (1853-06-04) Opened
5 May 1969 Closed
22 May 1981 Reopened
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Honeybourne from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Honeybourne railway station serves the village of Honeybourne in Worcestershire, England. Opened in 1853, it is on the Cotswold Line and was formerly a busy junction with five platform faces, also serving trains on the Great Western Railway's Honeybourne Line between Cheltenham Spa and Stratford-upon-Avon, which formed part of a strategic route between the West Midlands and the West of England.

The station was closed in 1969, after the withdrawal of stopping services and closure to freight, and the whole of the Stratford to Cheltenham line was closed in 1976, after derailment of some wagons on a goods train damaged a section of the track. Honeybourne was reopened in 1981, in connection with residential development near the station. The Heritage Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway have reopened the 12-mile section, of the 22-mile-long Honeybourne Line, between the site of Laverton Halt and Cheltenham Racecourse, and hopes to extend its operations further, via Broadway, to Honeybourne, for which Network Rail has made passive provision.

Honeybourne was one of the original stations opened on 4 June 1853 by the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway (OWW) on the long section between Evesham and Wolvercot Junction (north of Oxford). The OWW became the West Midland Railway in 1860, which in turn amalgamated with the Great Western Railway in 1863. Initially single track, the line between Campden to Evesham, including Honeybourne, was doubled on 20 March 1855. The station became a junction on 12 July 1859 with the opening of a 9.5-mile (15.3 km) link to Stratford-upon-Avon, which was continued south to Cheltenham by 1 August 1906. The single track from Honeybourne to Stratford was doubled on 9 February 1908, shortly before the route took on main line status on 1 July 1908 with the routing of express passenger trains between Birmingham Snow Hill and Bristol Temple Meads via the newly opened North Warwickshire Line.


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