Leominster railway station
Leominster 
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| Location | |
| Place | Leominster |
| Local authority | Herefordshire |
| Grid reference | SO501588 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | LEO |
| Managed by | Arriva Trains Wales |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | E |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2012/13 |
 0.264 million |
| 2013/14 |
0.249 million |
| 2014/15 |
 0.274 million |
| 2015/16 |
0.277 million |
| 2016/17 |
0.260 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 Leominster from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Leominster railway station lies on the Welsh Marches Line serving the Herefordshire town of Leominster in England. It is situated 11 1⁄4 miles (18.1 km) north of Hereford.
Leominster has 2 operational platforms for north (Ludlow) and south (Hereford) bound trains respectively, though in the past it had three more to the east of the ones now in use.
Developed jointly by the Great Western Railway and the LNWR, it was originally a through station on their joint Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway. The GWR then took over two independently financed and developed branch lines, creating a busy junction station:
Both branches were however closed to passenger traffic by British Railways in the 1950s - services to Worcester ended in 1952 and to Kington in 1955.
The station has a ticket office on platform 1, that is manned on a part-time basis on weekdays only (06:55 - 13:25). There is a self-service ticket machine provided for use outside of these times and for collecting pre-paid tickets. Platform 2 has a shelter only, whilst there are customer help points, digital information displays and automatic announcements provided to offer train running details on both sides.. Though the footbridge linking the platforms has stairs, level access is provided to each platform.
Leominster now sees a regular service to important cities. The Monday-Saturday off-peak service is:
On Sundays there is also an hourly service each way, though trains do not start running until mid-morning. This include a departure northbound to Chester & Holyhead in the late afternoon.
Coordinates: 52°13′30″N 2°43′48″W / 52.225°N 2.730°W
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