Ledbury railway station

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Ledbury

Location

Place

Ledbury

Local authority

Herefordshire

Operations

Station code

LED

Managed by

London Midland

Platforms in use

Live departures and station information from National Rail

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

0.130 million

2005/06 *

0.135 million

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Ledbury from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.

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Ledbury station is a small railway station on the outskirts of the town of Ledbury on the Worcester to Hereford line in the English Midlands. It also has services to Birmingham as well as Cotswold Line trains to London.

The station is the only section of double track, where trains travelling in opposite directions can pass each other, between Shelwick junction, near Hereford and the portal of Colwall New Tunnel near Great Malvern. This means that a delay to one train may hold up one travelling in the opposite direction and lead to further delays to later services. This sometimes results in trains heading towards Hereford being terminated at Ledbury and replacement bus services being laid on (though such decisions were said by Central Trains to be made only in "exceptional circumstances" ^[1]).