Leominster railway station

Leominster National Rail
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
Annual rail passenger usage*
2010/11 Increase 0.252 million
2011/12 Increase 0.265 million
2012/13 Decrease 0.264 million
2013/14 Decrease 0.249 million
2014/15 Increase 0.274 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.
UK Railways portal
GW 0-4-2T in the Goods yard in 1963

Leominster railway station lies on the Welsh Marches Line serving the Herefordshire town of Leominster in England.

Leominster has 2 platforms for north (Ludlow) and south (Hereford) bound trains respectively.

History

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.

Service today

Leominster now sees a regular service to important cities. The Monday-Saturday off-peak service is:

External links

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Hereford   Arriva Trains Wales
Welsh Marches Line
  Ludlow

Coordinates: 52°13′30″N 2°43′48″W / 52.225°N 2.730°W / 52.225; -2.730


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