Honeybourne railway station - 0845 748 4950

Honeybourne railway station serves the village of Honeybourne in Worcestershire, England. Opened in 1853, it is on the Cotswold Line and was formerly a busy junction with five platform faces, also serving trains on the Great Western Railway's Honeybourne Line between Cheltenham Spa and, which formed part of a strategic route between the West Midlands and the West of England.The station was closed in 1969, after the withdrawal of stopping services and closure to freight, and the whole of the Stratford to Cheltenham line was closed in 1976, after derailment of some wagons on a goods train damaged a section of the track. Honeybourne was reopened in 1981, in connection with residential development near the station. The Heritage Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway have reopened the 12-mile section, of the 22-mile-long Honeybourne Line, between the site of and, and hopes to extend its operations further, via Broadway, to Honeybourne, for which Network Rail has made passive provision.

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