Worcester Foregate Street train station
You can reach 80 stations directly from Worcester Foregate Street on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Droitwich Spa, with 99 trains a day.
See Worcester Foregate Street on the map
Worcester Foregate Street is the nearest station for postcodes in WR1, WR2, WR3, WR6. Check your own postcode.
- 80 direct destinations
- 295th busiest in Britain
- Staffed full time
- Step-free throughout
- 5 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Worcester Foregate Street
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Droitwich Spa | 99 | 90 | 43 |
| Worcester Shrub Hill | 92 | 64 | 52 |
| Great Malvern | 66 | 68 | 44 |
| Malvern Link | 66 | 67 | 44 |
| Birmingham Snow Hill | 60 | 56 | 19 |
| Cradley Heath | 60 | 56 | 19 |
| Jewellery Quarter | 60 | 56 | 19 |
| Kidderminster | 60 | 56 | 19 |
| Rowley Regis | 60 | 56 | 19 |
| Stourbridge Junction | 60 | 56 | 19 |
| Smethwick Galton Bridge | 60 | 56 | 19 |
| The Hawthorns | 60 | 56 | 19 |
| Birmingham Moor Street | 59 | 54 | 18 |
| Blakedown | 57 | 56 | 9 |
| Hagley | 57 | 56 | 19 |
| Acocks Green | 56 | 52 | 0 |
| Dorridge | 56 | 52 | 0 |
| Olton | 56 | 52 | 0 |
| Solihull | 56 | 52 | 0 |
| Widney Manor | 56 | 52 | 0 |
| Colwall | 42 | 40 | 25 |
| Hereford | 42 | 40 | 25 |
| Ledbury | 42 | 40 | 25 |
| Birmingham New Street | 39 | 34 | 24 |
| Bromsgrove | 37 | 34 | 24 |
| University | 36 | 34 | 24 |
| Tyseley | 34 | 29 | 16 |
| Charlbury | 33 | 31 | 27 |
| Evesham | 33 | 32 | 27 |
| Hartlebury | 33 | 32 | 9 |
| Kingham | 33 | 31 | 27 |
| Moreton-in-Marsh | 33 | 31 | 27 |
| Oxford | 33 | 31 | 27 |
| London Paddington | 33 | 31 | 27 |
| Small Heath | 33 | 29 | 0 |
| Hanborough | 32 | 31 | 26 |
| Reading | 32 | 31 | 27 |
| Pershore | 31 | 32 | 27 |
| Honeybourne | 30 | 31 | 27 |
| Stratford-upon-Avon | 27 | 21 | 16 |
and 40 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Worcester Foregate Street
Worcester Foregate Street is on the Cotswold Line and the Hereford and Worcester Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Worcester Foregate Street station, hour by hour
No freight is booked through or alongside Worcester Foregate Street station in the week beginning 12 October 2026. Freight paths stay in the national timetable even when they run only as required, so a station with none booked is one that goods trains do not pass.
How busy Worcester Foregate Street station is
1,914,248 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 295th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 169,971 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Worcester Foregate Street and Birmingham New Street than any other pair: 200,306 a year. That is where passengers go, which is not always where the most trains go.
Source: Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage, 2024-25. Estimated from ticket sales.
Sundays
Sunday is a different railway here: 50 stations instead of 80, a drop of about 38%. Saturday runs to 66.
Changing from 14 April 2027
From 14 April 2027, Worcester Foregate Street gains 14 destinations including Trowbridge, Keynsham, Oldfield Park, Freshford, Melksham, Avoncliff.
Nearest other stations
- Worcester Shrub Hill 0.5 miles
- Worcestershire Parkway 3.7 miles
- Droitwich Spa 5.7 miles
- Malvern Link 6.4 miles
- Great Malvern 7.2 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Worcester Foregate Street, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Henwick · 0.7 miles
- Astwood Halt · 1.1 miles
- Boughton Halt · 1.3 miles
- Blackpole Halt · 1.8 miles
- Rushwick Halt · 1.9 miles
- Fernhill Heath · 2.8 miles
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Facilities at Worcester Foregate Street station
Worcester Foregate Street is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:10 to 19:00 · Saturday: 06:10 to 19:00 · Sunday: 09:00 to 16:45
Toilets · Waiting room
Cycle parking: 36 spaces (stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 8 September 2026.
Getting to Worcester Foregate Street station
Worcester Foregate Street station is in Worcester, West Midlands, and is run by West Midlands Trains (West Midlands Railway).
The nearest motorway junction is M5 J7 (Crookbarrow Interchange), 2.4 miles south-east.
5 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Foregate Street Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Worcester Foregate Street station elsewhere
- National Rail facilities, opening hours and live departures
- Realtime Trains every train calling today, to the minute
- Wikipedia the station's history
- OpenStreetMap the map data this page is built from
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