Colwall railway station
Railway station in Herefordshire, England / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Colwall railway station is a railway station on the Cotswold Line serving the village of Colwall in Herefordshire, England. The station has one platform with seating. There is no ticket office; a passenger-operated Permit to Travel machine is installed, and there has been a ticket machine (for use with credit and debit cards only) since 2015.
General information | |||||
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Location | Colwall, Herefordshire England | ||||
Grid reference | SO756424 | ||||
Managed by | West Midlands Railway | ||||
Platforms | 1 | ||||
Other information | |||||
Station code | CWL | ||||
Classification | DfT category F2 | ||||
History | |||||
Opened | 1861 | ||||
Passengers | |||||
2018/19 | 62,146 | ||||
2019/20 | 67,664 | ||||
2020/21 | 19,102 | ||||
2021/22 | 44,866 | ||||
2022/23 | 52,402 | ||||
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The station was opened in 1861, the same year as the Hereford and Worcester Railway Line.
Today services are available direct to London Paddington, Birmingham and Hereford. To the west lies Ledbury Tunnel and to the east, the Colwall Tunnels.
The station is close to the Colwall Park Hotel and the (now defunct) Malvern Water bottling plant.