Bromsgrove railway station

Bromsgrove
Location
Place	Bromsgrove
Local authority	Bromsgrove
Grid reference	SO968693
Operations
Station code	BMV
Managed by	London Midland
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	0.173 million
2005/06	0.210 million
2006/07	0.207 million
2007/08	0.230 million
2008/09	0.427 million
2009/10	0.441 million
2010/11	0.465 million
2011/12	0.523 million
History
Opened 1840 (1840)
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Bromsgrove from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Bromsgrove railway station serves the town of Bromsgrove in Worcestershire, England. It is located at the foot of the two-mile Lickey Incline which ascends at a gradient of 1-in-37.7 towards Barnt Green on the line between Birmingham and Worcester. Bromsgrove is managed by London Midland.

History

The station opened as part of the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (later part of the Midland Railway) in 1840.<ref name=Jowett's>Jowett's Railway Centres Volume 1, Alan Jowett (PSL, 1993)</ref> In June 1969^[1] the station was rebuilt with a single platform on the up (northbound) side, which require stopping down (southbound) trains to cross to the up line and back again after calling at Bromsgrove station. A new platform on the down side was opened in May 1990.^[2]

Bromsgrove station in 1981 with one platform.

Future

On 4 May 2007, Network Rail announced that a new station will be built, to replace the existing structure. This is proposed to be in a brownfield site adjacent to the current site, and allow six car trains to stop at the station. The cost was originally projected to be in the region of £10-12 million,^[3] and it was estimated that the station could be operational by Easter 2009.^[4] However, by June 2009 the project was still only in the development stage^[5] and the funding for it was subsequently frozen by the local authority in June 2010.^[6]

Phase two of the project was set to see the electrification of the line from Bromsgrove to Barnt Green between 2011 and 2014 (though this date is likely to be amended in the wake of the delays to construction work on the new station). This is expected to result in an extra three trains per hour on the Cross-City Line serving the new station.^[7]

Planning permission for the new station was eventually granted by Worcestershire County Council in September 2013,^[8] three years after the funding for it was previously withdrawn. The new opening date has been set for May 2015, with electrification work presumably to follow.

Services

The station and most trains serving it are operated by London Midland, who operate an hourly service from Birmingham New Street to Hereford; three trains per day terminate at Great Malvern.

Four CrossCountry services (two each way, peak times only) on the Nottingham to Cardiff Central line also call at Bromsgrove each weekday.

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bromsgrove railway station.

• a Website dedicated to the Railway Line between Bromsgrove & Barnt Green
• Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands: Bromsgrove station

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
University		London Midland Birmingham-Hereford		Droitwich Spa
Barnt Green Peak times
University		CrossCountry Cardiff - Nottingham (limited service)		Ashchurch for Tewkesbury
	Disused railways
Blackwell Station Closed and Line Open		Great Western Railway Stoke Branch		Stoke Works Station Closed and Line Open

Coordinates: 52°19′23″N 2°02′53″W / 52.323°N 2.048°W / 52.323; -2.048