Worcester Foregate Street railway station
Railway station in Worcester, Worcestershire, England / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Worcester Foregate Street railway station, opened by the Great Western Railway in 1860[1] serves the city of Worcester, England. It is one of the two stations serving the city, with the other station, Worcester Shrub Hill, being located to the east. A third station, Worcestershire Parkway, is located just outside the city to the south-east.
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Location | Worcester, City of Worcester England | ||||
Grid reference | SO849552 | ||||
Managed by | West Midlands Railway | ||||
Platforms | 2 | ||||
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Station code | WOF | ||||
Classification | DfT category C2 | ||||
Passengers | |||||
2018/19 | 2.071 million | ||||
2019/20 | 2.191 million | ||||
Interchange | 0.569 million | ||||
2020/21 | 0.535 million | ||||
Interchange | 86,385 | ||||
2021/22 | 1.358 million | ||||
Interchange | 0.256 million | ||||
2022/23 | 1.583 million | ||||
Interchange | 0.460 million | ||||
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The station layout is unusual in that travelling east the two platforms serve different routes, rather than different directions. Platform 1 can only be accessed by trains via Worcester Shrub Hill (including trains to and from London Paddington and via Cheltenham Spa towards the southwest), while Platform 2 can only be accessed from the east by trains running directly to and from Droitwich Spa, avoiding Shrub Hill. Similar examples of this type of layout can be found at Glenrothes with Thornton in Fife and Bare Lane in Lancashire. This means that Great Western Railway services can only stop at Platform 1, as all of these trains stop at Shrub Hill.
There is a cafe called Cafe Loco at the end of Platform 1 in the old signal box.
The station itself is built on a viaduct, meaning that space for expansion is restricted, but the platforms are nevertheless of ample length to accommodate a HST. Despite its small size, the remains of two signal boxes can be seen, one spanning the tracks and the second now the station cafe.