Evesham railway station

Evesham
265px HST Class 43 at Evesham railway station
Location
Place	Evesham
Local authority	Wychavon
Coordinates
Grid reference	SP037444
Operations
Station code	EVE
Managed by	Great Western Railway
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	E
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	0.269 million
2005/06	0.239 million
2006/07	0.237 million
2007/08	0.214 million
2008/09	0.208 million
2009/10	0.203 million
2010/11	0.222 million
2011/12	0.220 million
2012/13	0.258 million
2013/14	0.246 million
History
Original company	Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
1 May 1852 (1852-05-01)	opened
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Evesham from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Evesham railway station is in the town of Evesham in Worcestershire, England. It is between Honeybourne and Pershore stations on the Cotswold Line between Oxford and Hereford via Worcester and Great Malvern. It is operated by Great Western Railway. Trains to London Paddington take about 1 hour 45 minutes. It is one of the few railway stations in the United Kingdom to have shown a steady (if relatively small) decline in use since 2004 (see usage figures, below right).

History

A 1904 Railway Clearing House Junction Diagram showing (centre) railways in the Evesham area. The present station is that on the yellow line, marked G.W.

The first major section of the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway (OWW), between Evesham and Stourbridge Junction, opened to public traffic on 3 May 1852, the opening ceremony having been held on 1 May. Evesham was a terminus for just over a year, until the last major section of the OWW, from Evesham to Wolvercot Junction (to the north of Oxford), was opened on 4 June 1853. The OWW became the West Midland Railway in 1860, which in turn merged with the Great Western Railway in 1863.

Facing the present (former OWW) station across the car park is the former Midland Railway station on the Ashchurch to Barnt Green Gloucester Loop Line, which closed to passenger traffic in June 1963 and completely a year later. The original timber buildings from this station were taken to build Monsal Dale railway station in Derbyshire; the replacement stone structure still stands and is used for office accommodation. The rest of the site has been redeveloped as a housing estate.

Services

Evesham currently has an irregular service with gaps between daytime services ranging from 40 minutes to 2 hours. It has a total of 32 services Monday to Friday: destinations served include Worcester, Great Malvern and Hereford to the north and west and Oxford, Reading & London Paddington to the south. Typical journey times are 27 minutes to Worcester, 1 hour 15 minutes to Hereford, 55 minutes to Oxford, 1 hour 16 minutes to Reading, and 1 hour 44 minutes to London Paddington.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Pershore		Great Western Railway Cotswold Line		Honeybourne
	Historical railways
Fladbury Line open, station closed		Great Western Railway Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway		Littleton and Badsey Line open, station closed
	Disused railways
Bengeworth Line and station closed		Midland Railway Gloucester Loop Line		Harvington Line and station closed

References

File:Evesham MR 6 62566r.jpg

The former Midland Railway station seen on 27 September 1962 with the 1138 Redditch to Ashchurch train

Sources

File:Evesham (WR) station, with Down local train geograph-2548642-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg

Down local train at the former OWW station in 1959

External links

• Train times and station information for Evesham railway station from National Rail
• Evesham Station on navigable 1946 O.S. map