General information | |
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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 | |
2018/19 | 0.256 million |
Interchange | 13 |
2019/20 | 0.244 million |
2020/21 | 0.107 million |
2021/22 | 0.231 million |
2022/23 | 0.245 million |
Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Leominster railway station lies on the Welsh Marches Line serving the Herefordshire town of Leominster in England. It is situated 11+1⁄4 miles (18.1 km) north of Hereford.
Leominster has 2 operational platforms for north (Ludlow) and south (Hereford) bound trains respectively, though in the past it had three more to the east of the ones now in use.
Developed jointly by the Great Western Railway and the LNWR, it was originally a through station on their joint Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway. The GWR then took over two independently financed and developed branch lines, creating a busy junction station:
Both branches were however closed to passenger traffic by British Railways in the 1950s – services to Worcester ended in 1952 and to Kington in 1955.
The station has a ticket office on platform 1, that 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 only, whilst there are 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]
Leominster now sees a regular service to important cities. The Monday-Saturday off-peak service is:
On Sundays there is also an hourly service each way, though trains do not start running until mid-morning. This include a departure northbound to Chester and Holyhead in the late afternoon.
Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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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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