Great Malvern railway station

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Great Malvern
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GreatMalvern2024.jpg
The platforms pictured in March 2024
General information
Location Great Malvern, Malvern Hills
England
Grid reference SO783457
Managed by West Midlands Railway
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeGMV
Classification DfT category D
Passengers
2018/19Decrease2.svg 0.531 million

The station is served by two train operating companies: West Midlands Trains (who manage the station) and Great Western Railway. West Midlands Trains operate services to Birmingham New Street via Worcester and Hereford every hour and also some services to Whitlocks End and Dorridge via the Snow Hill Lines. A handful of West Midlands Trains services start or terminate here each day, to/from Worcester & Birmingham. [9]

Great Western Railway operate a roughly hourly service to London Paddington via the Cotswold Line and Oxford (some of which run to/from Hereford) and every two hours (except Sundays) to Bristol Temple Meads via Gloucester. Many Bristol services continue onwards to Westbury & Weymouth. Terminating services (including all from Bristol) generally run empty to Malvern Wells to reverse, then return to the station to take up their next scheduled working.

There was previously a branch line to Ashchurch via Upton-on-Severn and Tewkesbury. Operated by the Midland Railway, it was closed in 1952.

Before May 2022, there was one through service to & from Brighton. This service has since been withdrawn. [10]

Preceding station National Rail logo.svg National Rail Following station
Colwall   West Midlands Railway
Birmingham-Hereford		  Malvern Link
  Great Western Railway
Cotswold Line 		 
  Great Western Railway
Great Malvern - Bristol		 
Terminus  West Midlands Railway
Birmingham-Great Malvern		  Malvern Link
Disused railways
Terminus  Tewkesbury and Malvern Railway
Midland Railway 		  Malvern Hanley Road
Line and station closed

Facilities

There is a ticket office and an award-winning café which opened in 1984, named 'Lady Foley's Tea Room', after Lady Emily Foley, on the London-bound platform. [11] [12] [13]

Refurbishment

In 2022 Network Rail is spending £8 million on restoration of the platform canopies, sculptures, overhead glazing and ironwork. The work, which will not cause any disruption to services, is expected to be finished by early 2023. The Victorian station clock is now also working following an £8,000 restoration in 2021 after having been stuck for over three years. [14] The work included replacing all the glass in the station canopies. [15]

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References

  1. 1 2 Historic England. "Great Malvern Station (1082821)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 5 July 2016.
  2. ↑ "Proposed Railway from Worcester to Hereford". Railway Record. 8: 426–427. 1851.
  3. ↑ "Lady Emily Foley of Malvern". Malvern Beacon. Malvern Beacon. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
  4. ↑ Malvern Worcester 150th Anniversary Official website
  5. ↑ "Worcestershire railway stations mark 150 years" 23 May 2010 Retrieved 23 May 2010
  6. ↑ The Railway Station Gallery [ permanent dead link ]
  7. ↑ "Step back in time through the Worm". Worcester News.
  8. ↑ Historic England. "Great Malvern Station covered pedestrian walkway (1427007)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 10 September 2016.
  9. ↑ GB National Rail Timetable 2015-16, Table 71 (Network Rail)
  10. ↑ GB National Rail Timetable 2015-16, Tables 123 & 126 (Network Rail)
  11. ↑ "Lady Foley's Tea Room". Worcestershire Tourist Guide. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
  12. ↑ "Great Malvern (GMV)". National Rail Enquiries. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
  13. ↑ "Station tea room takes the biscuit as Britain's best". Worcester News. Newsquest Media Group Ltd. 8 September 2000. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
  14. ↑ "Great Malvern: Restoration work begins for Victorian station". BBC News. BBC. 8 April 2022. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
  15. ↑ White, Chloe (13 April 2022). "Great Malvern station's Victorian Platform canopies are undergoing renovation". RailAdvent. Retrieved 18 April 2022.

Further reading

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