Disused railway lines and closed stations in Herefordshire

122 miles of disused railway
53 closed stations
4 stations open today
20 named lost lines

Herefordshire has 122 miles of disused railway and 53 closed stations, against 4 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 13.2 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Hereford, Hay & Brecon, with 20 miles of its route inside Herefordshire.

See Herefordshire’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 122 miles of lost railway in Herefordshire break down as 109 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 7.6 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left, 4.7 miles dismantled and 1.1 miles with track still in place but no trains. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in Herefordshire

20 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside Herefordshire; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Hereford, Hay & Brecon	20
Golden Valley Branch	17
Hereford, Ross & Gloucester Railway	15
Leominster and Kington Railway	15
Bromyard Branch	9.2
Kington and Eardisley Railway	6.9
Royal Ordnance Factory Lines	6.5
GWR Worcester to Leominster	6.4
Ross and Monmouth Railway	5.0
Hereford and Newport Line	2.7
Gloucester & Ledbury Railway	2.5
Woofferton and Tenbury Wells Branch	2.3
Cinderford Branch	1.4
Worcester and Hereford Line	0.7
Wye Valley Walk	0.6
Colwall Old Tunnel	0.5
Golden Valley Railway	0.4
Lea Tunnel	0.4
Lydbrook Tunnel	0.4
Moorfields Branch	0.4

Closed railway stations in Herefordshire

All 53 closed and former stations in Herefordshire, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in Herefordshire

4 stations in Herefordshire still have a train service. The busiest are Hereford (1.2 million a year), Leominster (260,220 a year), Ledbury (194,606 a year) and Colwall (63,456 a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

Worcestershire, Monmouthshire, Powys, Gloucestershire and Shropshire.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. County boundaries are today’s ceremonial counties, with unitary authorities folded into the county they sit in, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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