Leominster railway station

Leominster
Leominster
General information
Location	Leominster, Herefordshire ; England
Coordinates	52°13′30″N2°43′48″W / 52.225°N 2.730°W
Grid reference	SO501588
Managed by	Transport for Wales
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	LEO
Classification	DfT category E
Passengers
2019/20	0.244 million

Last updated November 22, 2024

111⁄4 miles (18.1 km) north of Hereford. The station has two operational platforms, for northbound services via Ludlow and southbound via Hereford; in the past, it had three more for discontinued services to Worcester and Kington.

History

Developed jointly by the GWR and the LNWR, it was originally a through station on their Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway. The GWR then took over two independently financed and developed branch lines, creating a busy junction station:

Leominster and Kington Railway to Kington and Presteigne (platforms 3/4)
Worcester, Bromyard and Leominster Railway to Worcester Shrub Hill (platforms 4/5)

Both branches were closed to passenger traffic by British Railways in the 1950s; services to Worcester ended in 1952 and to Kington in 1955.

Facilities

The station has a ticket office on platform 1, which is staffed on a part-time basis on weekdays only (06:55 – 13:25). There is a self-service ticket machine provided for use outside of these times and for collecting pre-paid tickets.

Platform 2 has a shelter, with customer help points, digital information displays and automatic announcements provided to offer train running details on both sides. Though the footbridge linking the platforms has stairs, level access is provided to each platform.^[1]

Service

Leominster has the following general Monday-Saturday off-peak service, with all trains operated by Transport for Wales:^[2]

1 train per hour (tph) to Manchester Piccadilly, calling at Ludlow, Craven Arms, Church Stretton, Shrewsbury, Crewe, Wilmslow and Stockport; some trains also call at Whitchurch and Nantwich).
1 tph to Carmarthen, calling at Hereford, Abergavenny, Cwmbran, Newport, Cardiff Central, Bridgend, Port Talbot Parkway, Neath, Swansea, Llanelli and Pembrey and Burry Port.
- This journey is extended to Milford Haven every two hours, calling at Whitland, Clunderwen (request stop), Clarbeston Road (request stop), Haverfordwest and Johnston (request stop).

On Sundays, there is also an hourly service each way from mid-morning; this include a departure northbound to Chester and Holyhead in the late afternoon.

Preceding station	National Rail		Following station
Hereford		Transport for Wales Welsh Marches Line	Ludlow
	Disused railways
Kingsland Line and station closed		Great Western Railway Leominster and Kington Railway	Terminus
Terminus		Great Western Railway Worcester, Bromyard and Leominster Railway	Stoke Prior Halt Line and station closed

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References

↑ Leominster station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 20 April 2024
↑ "Timetables". Transport for Wales. 10 December 2023. Retrieved 20 April 2024.

External links

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

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[1] Leominster station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 20 April 2024

[2] "Timetables". Transport for Wales. 10 December 2023. Retrieved 20 April 2024.

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