Moreton-in-Marsh railway station


Moreton-in-Marsh railway station is a railway station serving the town of Moreton-in-Marsh in Gloucestershire, England. It is on the Cotswold Line between and stations. The station and all passenger trains serving it are operated by Great Western Railway.

History

The station was opened by the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway on 4 June 1853, the day that the southern section of the OWW's main line, that between and Wolvercot Junction, was opened.
It was once the southern end of the Stratford-upon-Avon to Moreton tramway. It was a passing place on the largely single line Cotswold Line, but since the redoubling completed in 2011 it is once again a station on normal double track. It was the base of Cotswold Rail, a spot-hire company of shunting and mainline locomotives, now based in Gloucester.
In August 2019, direct Great Western train service from London Paddington station to the Moreton-in-Marsh railway station was expected to take under 2 hours. The average time to get to the station from Birmingham was 2.75 hours.

Bilingual signs

Several of the information and direction signs around the station are bilingual – in English and Japanese. This is for the benefit of tourists, as Japanese television is promoting the Cotswolds as a holiday destination. They were the idea of station manager Teresa Ceesay, who had noticed the popularity of the town with Japanese tourists and that many asked for information at the station's ticket office. The cost of £350 was met by train operator First Great Western.

Services

operate all services at Moreton-in-Marsh. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: