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Leominster railway station

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Place
  
Leominster

Station code
  
LEO

DfT category
  
E

Number of platforms
  
2

Grid reference
  
SO501588

Managed by
  
Arriva Trains Wales

2011/12
  
0.265 million

Local authority
  
Herefordshire

Leominster railway station

Address
  
Leominster HR6 8AR, United Kingdom

Similar
  
Hereford railway station, Rowden Mill railway station, Craven Arms railway st, Abergavenny railway station, Clarbeston Road railway st

Leominster railway station lies on the Welsh Marches Line serving the Herefordshire town of Leominster in England.

Contents

Leominster has 2 platforms for north (Ludlow) and south (Hereford) bound trains respectively.

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:

  • Leominster and Kington Railway to Kington and Presteigne (Platforms 3/4)
  • Worcester, Bromyard and Leominster Railway to Worcester (Platforms 4/5)

    • 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.

    Service today

    Leominster now sees a regular service to important cities. The Monday-Saturday off-peak service is:

  • 1 train per hour (tph) to Manchester Piccadilly, calling at Ludlow, Craven Arms, Church Stretton, Shrewsbury, Crewe, Wilmslow and Stockport. (certain trains also call at Whitchurch and Nantwich).
  • 1 tph to Carmarthen, calling at Hereford, Abergavenny, Cwmbran, Newport, Cardiff Central, Bridgend, Port Talbot Parkway, Neath, Swansea, Llanelli and Pembrey and Burry Port.
  • This journey is extended to Milford Haven every two hours, calling at Whitland, Clunderwen (request stop), Clarbeston Road (request stop), Haverfordwest and Johnston (request stop).

    • 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 Chester & Holyhead in the late afternoon.

    References

    Leominster railway station Wikipedia
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