Disused railway lines and closed stations in Worcestershire

56 miles of disused railway
52 closed stations
18 stations open today
14 named lost lines

Worcestershire has 56 miles of disused railway and 52 closed stations, against 18 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 2.9 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Barnt Green Evesham and Ashchurch Line, with 14 miles of its route inside Worcestershire.

See Worcestershire’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 56 miles of lost railway in Worcestershire break down as 45 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 7.2 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left, 2.2 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 Worcestershire

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

Line	Miles in county
Barnt Green Evesham and Ashchurch Line	14
Tewkesbury and Malvern Railway	7.8
Tenbury Branch	6.8
GWR Worcester to Leominster	6.8
Severn Valley Branch	2.8
Tenbury & Bewdley Railway	2.8
Honeybourne and Cheltenham Line	2.7
Halesowen Branch	2.7
Leapgate Old Railway Line	1.2
Butts Branch	0.9
Ashchurch and Malvern Line	0.6
Honeybourne North Loop	0.5
Honeybourne South Loop	0.4
Colwall Old Tunnel	0.4

Closed railway stations in Worcestershire

All 52 closed and former stations in Worcestershire, 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 Worcestershire

18 stations in Worcestershire still have a train service. The busiest are Worcester Foregate Street (1.9 million a year), Kidderminster (1.2 million a year), Redditch (910,428 a year), Bromsgrove (695,994 a year) and Worcester Shrub Hill (577,194 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

Herefordshire, West Midlands, Warwickshire, Gloucestershire, Shropshire, Staffordshire and Monmouthshire.

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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