Leominster railway station


Leominster railway station lies on the Welsh Marches Line, serving the town of Leominster in Herefordshire, England. It is situated north of Hereford. The station has two operational platforms, for northbound services via and southbound via ; in the past, it had three more for discontinued services to Worcester and Kington.

History

Developed jointly by the GWR and the LNWR, it was originally a through station on their Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway. The GWR then took over two independently financed and developed branch lines, creating a busy junction station:
Both branches were 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, which is staffed 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, with 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

Leominster has the following general Monday-Saturday off-peak service, with all trains operated by Transport for Wales:
On Sundays, there is also an hourly service each way from mid-morning; this include a departure northbound to and in the late afternoon.