RAILSCOT | Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway

Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway

Introduction

This line runs north west from Oxford to Worcester and then north to Wolverhampton.

Dates

/ /1851	Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway Line opened.
/ /1854	Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway Wolverhampton Low Level station opened by the Great Western Railway.
31/12/1855	Railway Clearing House By this date, Cork and Bandon Railway, Crieff Junction Railway, Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway, Dublin and Drogheda Railway, Forth and Clyde Junction Railway, Furness Railway, Great Southern and Western Railway, Irish South Eastern Railway, Killarney Junction Railway, Leeds, Bradford and Halifax Junction Railway, Leven Railway, London and South Western Railway, London, Tilbury and Southend Railway, Monkland Railways, Monmouthshire Railway and Canal, Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway, Norfolk Railway, North and South Western Junction Railway, Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway, Peebles Railway, Perth and Dunkeld Railway, Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway, St Andrews Railway, Ulster and Dundalk Railway, Waterford and Kilkenny Railway and Waterford and Limerick Railway join.
/ /1860	West Midland Railway Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway Worcester and Hereford Railway Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway, Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway and Worcester and Hereford Railway merge to form the West Midland Railway.
/06/2011	Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway New platform at Honeybourne under construction.
06/06/2011	Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway New platforms opened at Charlbury and Ascott-under-Wychwood after the line is re-doubled between the statons.
22/08/2011	Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway Moreton-in-Marsh to Evesham re-doubled.

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

Wolvercot Junction

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Birmingham and Oxford Railway

The signal box diagram at Wolvercot Junction . ...
Doug Nicholls /10/1967

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Yarnton

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Witney Railway

Hanborough

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A platform with a yellow 'keep back' line, a shelter, bins, a disused platform, a wheelchair ramp, bins, what more could you want? Oh, trains, I ...
Ken Strachan 04/05/2018

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Charlbury

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Traditional running in board at Charlbury in the Cotswolds in August 2018. The line has been re-doubled and has a second platform provided.
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John Yellowlees 04/08/2018

A Worcester bound 125 sets off from Charlbury. The train is heading away from the camera. ...
Ewan Crawford 06/09/2009

Charlbury looking to Worcester. Some works can be seen on the left for the re-doubling of the line. ...
Ewan Crawford 06/09/2009

No hurry. Waiting for a train at Charlbury - September 1985. ...
Ian Dinmore /09/1985

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Ascott-under-Wychwood

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Not down there you won't. There is a conflict between the 'Men at Work' sign and the overgrown and padlocked gate, which could conceivably lead to a ...
Ken Strachan 07/07/2019

A view of the signalbox and crossing. See 69941 for a view of the box in 2019. ...
Doug Nicholls /08/1968

Coal merchants' yards have always been located adjacent to railway stations. Departures from tradition in this case include diversification into ...
Ken Strachan 07/07/2019

Mechanical signal boxes are disappearing fast - time to photograph them in their final conditions! This box has an interesting little dip over the ...
Ken Strachan 07/07/2019

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Shipton

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Shipton station, at Shipton-under-Wychwood. The view looks towards Oxford. This station is on the double track Ascott-under-Wychwood to ...
Ewan Crawford 06/09/2009

HST power car 43022 leads the 17.05 First Great Western service to London Paddington into Shipton Station on the Cotswold line. The HST stop board is ...
David Pesterfield 29/04/2010

The rear two coaches only of the 17.05 HST service for London at the platform at Shipton Station on 29 April. The HST stop board is some 130m distance ...
David Pesterfield 29/04/2010

Shipton Station on the Cotswold Line looking along the up platform towards Oxford, with modern waiting shelter and platform bench incorporating the ...
David Pesterfield 17/04/2010

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Kingham

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Chipping Norton Branch (Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway)
Bourton-on-the-Water Railway

A 125 prepares to call at Kingham. This station once had four platforms, a locomotive shed and three junctions connecting to the Cheltenham to Banbury ...
Ewan Crawford 12/04/2008

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Adlestrop

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Adlestrop station in October 1965. The station closed the following year although the line remains open. ...
Doug Nicholls /10/1965

The station nameboard and a bench (with GWR scrollwork) from Adlestrop station in use in the village bus shelter on 4 March 2014, some distance from ...
John McIntyre 04/03/2014

There was not much to see as far as the former Adlestrop station was concerned when it was visited on 4 March 2014. The degraded remains of the ...
John McIntyre 04/03/2014

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Moreton-in-Marsh

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Stratford and Moreton Railway

Ancient and modern at Moreton - a manual signal box, staffed after 10pm; and an IET (IIRC to Great Malvern). 27th May 2022 ...
Ken Strachan 27/05/2022

Left luggage at Moreton-in-Marsh - what a wonderfully convenient idea! Private enterprise is clearly flourishing in the Cotswolds. ...
Ken Strachan 18/07/2020

I cant quite imagine the builders of the Old Worse and Worse anticipating that their railway would use trains designed in Japan. Still, times change. ...
Ken Strachan 17/08/2020

The new order cometh - the 21.22 for Worcester Shrub Hill (from Paddington) pauses under a splendid summer sunset. ...
Ken Strachan 18/07/2020

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Blockley

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Middle England - a winter dusk sees a train from Great Malvern via Fairly Good Malvern and Not So Bad Really Malvern head for Paddington, at Aston ...
Ken Strachan 03/12/2022

The 12.30 off Moreton-in-the-Marsh to Hereford accelerates through a distinctly autumnal landscape at Aston Magna (south of the former Blockley ...
Ken Strachan 24/12/2017

180108 heads to Paddington from Great Malvern on 3 March 2014 passing the site of Blockley station (closed January 1966). Off to the left is the ...
John McIntyre 03/03/2014

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Chipping Campden

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A First Great Westen HST bound for London Paddington passes the site of Chipping Campden station (closed 1966) between Evesham and Moreton-in-Marsh on ...
John McIntyre 03/03/2014

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Honeybourne

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Stratford-on-Avon Branch (Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway)

The remains of Honeybourne station in 1985. The station reopened that year having previously lost its passenger service in May 1969. ...
Colin Miller //1985

A First Great Western service pauses on its way west at Honeybourne and the guard takes the air. The view looks towards Oxford. The arch crosses over ...
Ewan Crawford 05/09/2009

Looking to Oxford at Honeybourne. The line to the left serves the nearby MOD establishment. The line to the right is the Oxford, Worcester and ...
Ewan Crawford 05/09/2009

Honeybourne looking to Worcester. The disused island platform divides the OWW on the left from the connection to the GWR route from Cheltenham to ...
Ewan Crawford 05/09/2009

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Evesham

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The Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education / Porterbrook / Jeff Vehicles 'HydroFLEX' crosses over River Avon east of Evesham station. ...
Network Rail /10/2020

Looking west at Evesham station in September 2011 when the line was being redoubled between stations. Rationalisation at the far end of the station ...
John McIntyre 21/09/2011

Evesham station looking east on a dull 21 September 2011. The track has been redoubled to both Worcester in the west and Moreton-in-Marsh to the east. ...
John McIntyre 21/09/2011

Approaching Evesham station from the south. ...
Ewan Crawford 14/07/2003

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Pershore

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Something old, something new, something blue... and I'm sure they've borrowed something somewhere! Basic but effective facilities at a sunny Pershore ...
Ken Strachan 26/07/2014

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Abbots Wood Junction

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Birmingham and Gloucester Railway

This is an under construction station being built where the former Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway, a single track line at this location, crosses over the former Birmingham and Gloucester Railway, a double track line. There will be two platforms on the double line and a third on the single line.
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Birmingham and Gloucester Railway

The High Level platform at Worcestershire Parkway in May 2019 - nearly finished. ...
Ken Strachan 18/05/2019

RAILSCOT can exclusively reveal that the reason for the last delay in the opening of the first new station in Worcestershire for a hundred years and ...
Ken Strachan 16/02/2020

Looking North towards Birmingham over the Low Level platforms at Worcestershire Parkway. Taken from the last HST to Worcester on 18th May 2019.
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Ken Strachan 18/05/2019

After some 20 years in planning, this new Parkway station is at last being built. View South-West from the Pershore road on 29th April 2019. ...
Ken Strachan 29/04/2019

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Norton Junction

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Dudley to Lichfield (South Staffordshire Railway)

Worcester Shrub Hill

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800319 waiting to depart from Worcester Shrub Hill for Paddington, via Evesham and Oxford, on 5th March 2022. ...
David Bosher 05/03/2022

LNER Class A3 4-6-2 ' Pacific' 60103 Flying Scotsman just arrived at its destination at Worcester Shrub Hill, with The Railway Touring Company's ...
David Bosher 05/03/2022

With the crowd jostling each other to take a photo or two (or even more), Flying Scotsman has returned from the siding and come to a stop at platform ...
David Bosher 05/03/2022

The platform 2 waiting rooms at Shrub Hill, in all their glory, in mellow dusk light in June 2018. see image 66165 ...
Ken Strachan 09/06/2018

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Tunnel Junction [Worcester]

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Astwood Halt

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Fernhill Heath

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Droitwich

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Vivarail train at Droitwich. Network Rail and Vivarail today announced that Vivarailâ€™s next-generation battery train will be launched at COP26 ...
Network Rail /09/2021

Aproaching Droitwich from the junction to the north. ...
Ewan Crawford //

172334 was brand new when I took this picture at Kidderminster in 2016; so it provides a nice counterpoint to the very large Victorian goods shed in ...
Ken Strachan 09/04/2016

Looking South at Kidderminster on a Saturday evening in September 2012. The class 172, the station footbridge and the colour light signals are all ...
Ken Strachan 22/09/2012

London Midland unit 172340 operates the 17.58 service to Worcester Shrub Hill at Kidderminster on 22nd September 2012. More pasengers than usual due ...
Ken Strachan 22/09/2012

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Blakedown

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Opened in 1852 by the Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway (and originally named Churchill & Blakedown) the once rural Blakedown is now an ...
Ian Dinmore //1982

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Hagley

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Stourbridge Junction

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Stourbridge Branch (Great Western Railway)

Conventional (but soon to be replaced) stock at Stourbridge Junction as 3-car Sprinter 150015 calls on a London Midland service to Dorridge via Snow ...
Mark Bartlett 08/06/2011

The Parry People Mover Class 139 arrives at Stourbridge Junction passing over the now little used connection to the main line as seen from the end of ...
Mark Bartlett 08/06/2011

The former Wolverhampton Low Level station, seen here in September 2016 in use as a hotel. See image 20285 [Ref query 3348] ...
John Yellowlees 18/09/2016

Looks like the last train left a lot less than 44 years ago! ...
John Yellowlees 18/09/2016

This pub sign is more faithful to the original than many I could name. The pub is equidistant from Wolverhampton High and Low Level stations and is ...
Ken Strachan 16/03/2014

Wolverhampton Low Level, unloved and abandoned with a road driven through its east end, in 2003. But plans were afoot and the site was surrounded by ...
Ewan Crawford 03/07/2003

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