Malvern Hanley Road railway station

Malvern Hanley Road
The station in 1951
General information
Location	Malvern Wells, Malvern Hills, Worcestershire England
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Midland Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway British Railways
Key dates
1 July 1862	Station opens as Malvern Wells (MR)
2 March 1951	renamed Malvern Hanley Road
1 December 1952	Station closes
Location

Pre Grouping railway junctions around Abbotswood, Malvern (lower left), Stoke Prior & Worcester

Malvern Hanley Road railway station was a Midland Railway (MR) station on the Malvern, Tewkesbury and Ashchurch line.

The station was opened as Malvern Wells on 1 July 1862 by the Tewkesbury and Malvern Railway before it became part of the MR. ^{[note 1] [1] [2]}

The station was host to two LMS caravans from 1935 to 1939. ^[3]

The station was renamed Malvern Hanley Road on 2 March 1951 only to close a year later on 1 December 1952 when the line closed. ^{[1] [4]}

References

Notes

1. There is some confusion about station names in Malvern. The GWR had three stations on its Hereford to Worcester line, they were:
   • Malvern Wells (which was usually suffixed with GW in timetables).
   • Then came the junction with the Midland Railway called Malvern Junction but there was no actual station located at the junction.
   • Great Malvern.
   • Malvern Link.
   The Midland Railway station was also called Malvern Wells and was often suffixed with Mid or MR in the timetables. Bradshaws timetables for 1895 and 1922 both have a note attached to the MR station saying Hanley Road Station; about 1¾ mile to The Common Station, Great Western Railway. ^{[5] [6] [7]}

Citations

1. Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN   978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC   60251199. OL   11956311M.
2. Grant, Donald J. (2017). Directory of the Railway Companies of Great Britain (1st ed.). Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Troubador Publishing Ltd. p. 560. ISBN   978-1-78803-768-6.
3. McRae, Andrew (1997). British Railway Camping Coach Holidays: The 1930s & British Railways (London Midland Region). Vol. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part One). Foxline. p. 22. ISBN   1-870119-48-7.
4. Hurst, Geoffrey (1992). Register of Closed Railways: 1948-1991. Worksop, Nottinghamshire: Milepost Publications. p. 8 (refs 0329 & 0330). ISBN   0-9477-9618-5.

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2006). Bromsgrove to Gloucester. Middleton Press. fig. 75. ISBN   9781904474739. OCLC   931169432.

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Great Malvern Line closed		Tewkesbury and Malvern Railway Midland Railway		Upton-on-Severn Line and station closed

52°04′44″N2°18′58″W / 52.0790°N 2.3162°W / 52.0790; -2.3162