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Leominster railway station lies on the Welsh Marches Line, serving the town of Leominster in Herefordshire, England. It is situated 11 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles (18.1 km) north of Hereford . The station has two operational platforms, for northbound services via Ludlow and southbound via Hereford ; in the past, it had three more for discontinued services ...
Hereford railway station serves the city of Hereford, in Herefordshire, England. Managed by Transport for Wales , it lies on the Welsh Marches Line between Leominster and Abergavenny , is the western terminus of the Cotswold Line and also has an hourly West Midlands Trains service from Birmingham New Street .
Dinmore Tunnel is the name given to two railway tunnels located on the former Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway (S&HR) line between Hereford station and Leominster station. The first tunnel (currently the 'up' tunnel) was built in 1853, with the second tunnel (the 'down' tunnel) being added in 1891. [ 1 ]
A joint opening with the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway took place on 6 December 1853. The company was taken over by the West Midland Railway in 1860, which became part of the Great Western Railway in 1863. The main Hereford station and headquarters of the Newport to Hereford line was Hereford Barton railway station to the west of the city ...
The line that exists today is the amalgamation of two lines, both with influence from the LNWR.The southern section from Newport to Hereford is formed from the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway, while the northern section from Hereford to Shrewsbury is formed from the joint GWR/LNWR Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway. [1]
On 26 April 1958, a special train organised by the Stephenson Locomotive Society ran from Worcester Shrub Hill to Leominster, calling at Bromyard, Rowden Mill, Fencote and Steens Bridge. The 50 society members and passengers rode on the last train that would run on the complete track before it was removed.
Leominster and Kington Railway was one of four branches which served the Welsh Marches border town of Kington, Herefordshire. Opened in August 1857, its peak was during World War II, when it served two US Army hospitals. Declining after the war due to competition from buses, it closed to passengers in 1955, and to freight from 1964.
The Worcester, Bromyard and Leominster Railway Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. ccxiii) authorising the proposed line received royal assent on 1 August 1861, authorising a single track 24.5-mile (39.4 km) railway line from a point near Bransford Road on the West Midland Railway, through Bromyard to the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway at Leominster.