Leominster railway station


Leominster railway station lies on the Welsh Marches Line serving the Herefordshire town of Leominster in England. It is situated north of Hereford.
Leominster has 2 operational platforms for north and south bound trains respectively, though in the past it had three more to the east of the ones now in use.

History

Developed jointly by the Great Western Railway and the LNWR, it was originally a through station on their joint Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway. The GWR then took over two independently financed and developed branch lines, creating a busy junction station:
Both branches were however closed to passenger traffic by British Railways in the 1950s – services to Worcester ended in 1952 and to Kington in 1955.

Facilities

The station has a ticket office on platform 1, that is manned on a part-time basis on weekdays only. There is a self-service ticket machine provided for use outside of these times and for collecting pre-paid tickets. Platform 2 has a shelter only, whilst there are customer help points, digital information displays and automatic announcements provided to offer train running details on both sides.. Though the footbridge linking the platforms has stairs, level access is provided to each platform.

Service today

Leominster now sees a regular service to important cities. The Monday-Saturday off-peak service is:
On Sundays there is also an hourly service each way, though trains do not start running until mid-morning. This include a departure northbound to and in the late afternoon.