Honeybourne railway station
Honeybourne railway station serves the village of Honeybourne in Worcestershire, England. Opened in 1853, it is on the Cotswold Line and was formerly a busy junction with five platform faces, also serving trains on the Great Western Railway's Honeybourne Line between Cheltenham Spa and Stratford-upon-Avon, which formed part of a strategic route between the West Midlands and the West of England.
Honeybourne | |
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| General information | |
| Location | Honeybourne, Wychavon England |
| Coordinates | 52.101°N 1.835°W |
| Grid reference | SP114448 |
| Managed by | Great Western Railway |
| Platforms | 2 |
| Other information | |
| Station code | HYB |
| Classification | DfT category F2 |
| History | |
| Original company | Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Great Western Railway |
| Post-grouping | Great Western Railway |
| Key dates | |
| 4 June 1853 | Opened |
| 5 May 1969 | Closed |
| 22 May 1981 | Reopened |
| Passengers | |
| 2018/19 | 66,612 |
| 2019/20 | 71,830 |
| 2020/21 | 16,280 |
| 2021/22 | 64,078 |
| 2022/23 | 85,768 |
| Location | |
| Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road | |
The station was closed in 1969, after the withdrawal of stopping services to Stratford-upon Avon and closure to freight. The whole of the Stratford to Cheltenham line was closed in late August 1976, after derailment of some wagons on a goods train damaged a section of the track. Honeybourne was reopened in 1981, in connection with residential development near the station. The Heritage Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway have reopened the 14-mile section of the 22-mile-long Honeybourne Line, between Broadway and Cheltenham Racecourse, and hopes to extend its operations a further 5 miles, to Honeybourne, for which Network Rail has made passive provision.