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Worcester Foregate Street, opened by the Great Western Railway in 1860, [1] is one of two railway stations that serve the city of Worcester, England; the other is Worcester Shrub Hill, which is located to the east. A third station, Worcestershire Parkway, is sited just outside of the city to the south-east.
Worcester Foregate Street: 1860 [19] Worcester: Great Western Railway West Midlands Railway 1,358,222 534,904 2,190,982 Worcester Shrub Hill: 1852 [20] Worcester Great Western Railway West Midlands Railway 409,540 161,288 660,638 Worcestershire Parkway: 2020 [21] Worcester Great Western Railway CrossCountry: 314,894 32,350 25,478 Wythall: 1908 ...
The Worcester area is controlled by another two signal boxes at Henwick (west of Foregate Street) and Tunnel Junction (to the north of Shrub Hill). Both platforms 1 and 2 can be used in either direction; generally, trains for Foregate Street use platform one and trains towards Oxford and Cheltenham Spa use platform 2.
Worcester Foregate Street railway station in the centre of Worcester; Worcester Shrub Hill railway station to the east of Worcester city centre; Worcester Park railway station in Worcester Park, south-west London; Worcestershire Parkway railway station, about a mile outside of Worcester near the village of Norton; In the United States
Worcester Foregate Street station. Finishing the Malvern Tunnel was the key to opening the rest of the Worcester and Hereford line. The opening took place on 15 September 1861. It had the effect of physically connecting the two parts of the West Midland Railway: the former OW&WR and the former NA&HR.
It is also close to Junction 7 on the M5, allowing Worcestershire residents to use the station as a 500-car park and ride to major cities, as well as into Worcester's Foregate Street and Shrub Hill stations, which is expected to relieve traffic and parking problems in Worcester itself. [5] [6]
An hourly long-distance service to/from Liverpool Lime Street via Runcorn run by London Northwestern Railway also calls, originating at Birmingham New Street operated by Class 350 EMUs. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] A service to and from Shrewsbury via Telford Central also calls operated by Class 196 DMUs , hourly off-peak with 2tph at peak times.
Worcester Foregate Street and Worcester Shrub Hill are in the city centre. A third station on the edge of the city, Worcestershire Parkway, opened in 2020. The Cotswold line towards Great Malvern and Hereford crosses Foregate Street on an arched cast-iron bridge. Between Foregate Street and the St John's area of the city, heading towards ...