Pershore railway station

Pershore

Location
Place	Pershore
Local authority	Wychavon
Grid reference	SO951480
Operations
Station code	PSH
Managed by	First Great Western
Number of platforms	1
DfT category	F1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	53,154
2005/06	62,522
2006/07	61,739
2007/08	61,971
2008/09	62,472
2009/10	58,744
2010/11	67,230
2011/12	72,510
2012/13	89,546
2013/14	87,596
National Rail – UK railway stations

* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Pershore from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Pershore railway station is a railway station in the village of Pinvin, Worcestershire that serves the town of Pershore just over 1 mile (1.6 km) to the south. The station is on a single-track section of the Cotswold Line. The station and all trains serving it are operated by First Great Western.

Class 166 diesel train 166205 at Pershore en route to London Paddington.

History

The station was opened as part of the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway on 1 May 1852. The station is also the subject of a poem by John Betjeman called Pershore Station or A Liverish Journey First Class.^[1]

Notes

↑ Betjeman, John. "Pershore Station, or A Liverish Journey First Class". The Betjeman Concordance. University of Victoria. Retrieved 2 November 2011.

External links

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Train times and station information for Pershore railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Worcester Shrub Hill		First Great Western Cotswold Line		Evesham

Transport in Worcestershire

Road

Motorways	M5 M42 M50

A-Roads	A38 A44 A46 A422 A435 A441 A442 A448 A449 A456 A491 A4025 A4536

Service Stations	Frankley services Hopwood Park services Strensham services

Other	Icknield Street List of settlements on the A38

Rail

Main lines	Cross-City Line Cross Country Route North Warwickshire Line Birmingham to Worcester via Bromsgrove Line Birmingham to Worcester via Kidderminster Line Cotswold Line

Closed lines	Oxford-Worcester-Wolverhampton Line (Dudley to Wolverhampton section)

Stations	Alvechurch Barnt Green Blakedown Bromsgrove Droitwich Spa Evesham Great Malvern Hagley Hartlebury Honeybourne Kidderminster Malvern Link Pershore Redditch Worcester Foregate Street Worcester Shrub Hill Wythall

Closed stations	Astwood Bank Aston-under-Hill Beckford Bengeworth Foley Park Halt Hinton Littleton and Badsey Malvern Wells Ripple Upton-on-Severn

Heritage stations	Arley Bewdley Kidderminster Town Northwood Halt

Other	Severn Valley Railway

Buses

Routes	Worcestershire bus route 144

Companies	Diamond Bus First Midland Red

Other	Bus transport in Bromsgrove

Waterways

Rivers	River Arrow River Avon River Severn River Stour River Teme

Canals	Droitwich Canal Leominster Canal Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal Worcester and Birmingham Canal

Other	Diglis Basin Hampton Ferry Tardebigge Engine House Tardebigge Locks

Footpaths

Long-distance footpaths	Cotswold Way Monarch's Way Severn Way Worcestershire Way Wychavon Way

Cycle Paths

Railway stations in Worcestershire

Hereford to London:
Cotswold Line

Birmingham to Cardiff:

Birmingham to Worcester
via Bromsgrove:

Birmingham to Worcester
via Kidderminster:

Lichfield to Redditch:
Cross-City Line

Birmingham to Stratford-upon-Avon:

Wythall

Heritage railway stations

Gloucs-Warks Steam Railway

Broadway (Proposed)
Weston-sub-Edge (Proposed)
Honeybourne (Proposed)

Severn Valley Railway:

Arley
Northwood Halt
Bewdley
Kidderminster Town (adjacent to Kidderminster railway station)

Coordinates: 52°07′48″N 2°04′19″W / 52.130°N 2.072°W / 52.130; -2.072