Malvern Link railway station

Malvern Link

Location
Place	Malvern Link
Local authority	Malvern Hills
Grid reference	SO782474
Operations
Station code	MVL
Managed by	London Midland
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	E
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	0.179 million
2005/06	0.201 million
2006/07	0.217 million
2007/08	0.227 million
2008/09	0.238 million
2009/10	0.250 million
2010/11	0.262 million
2011/12	0.267 million
2012/13	0.279 million
2013/14	0.297 million
National Rail – UK railway stations

* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Malvern Link from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Malvern Link railway station serves Malvern Link in Worcestershire, England.^[1] It is one of two stations serving the town of Malvern, the other being Great Malvern station.^[2]

History

A six-mile railway from Henwick to Malvern Link opened in July 1859; in May 1860 the line was extended onward to Great Malvern and Malvern Wells.^[3]

Most of the original station buildings (on the down (eastern) side) had to be demolished in the 1960s after falling into poor repair, though the station house has survived.

Development

A set of improvements, funded by Worcestershire County Council, Network Rail and the Railway Heritage Trust, was carried out in 2014 to replace the wooden 1960s station building and provide a new entrance to the up platform from Osborne Road. In 2015 these improvements were awarded the Malvern Civic Society's Civic Award.^[4]^[5]

Services

The station is located on the Cotswold Line and served by London Midland and Great Western Railway.^[6] Trains run westbound to Great Malvern & Hereford and eastbound to Worcester Foregate Street; from the latter, destinations served include Birmingham New Street via Bromsgrove, Bristol Temple Meads & Westbury and Whitlocks End via Kidderminster & Birmingham Snow Hill.

References

↑ "Malvern Link Station". 2010-11-28. Retrieved 2010-12-24.
↑ "Getting to Malvern - MalvernTrail". 2010-08-05. Retrieved 2010-12-24.
↑ Simpson (1997). The day the trains came. Gracewing. p. 93.
↑ "Malvern Link station improvements". Worcestershire County Council. 2013.
↑ "Link railway station wins top award from Malvern Civic Society". Retrieved 15 January 2016.
↑ Table 71 Network Rail Timetable December 2015

External links

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Train times and station information for Malvern Link railway station from National Rail

Preceding station		Following station
Great Malvern	London Midland Birmingham-Hereford/Great Malvern	Worcester Foregate Street
	London Midland Hereford-Dorridge
	First Great Western Cotswold Line
	First Great Western Great Malvern - Bristol and beyond

Transport in Worcestershire

Road

Motorways	M5 M42 M50

A-Roads	A38 A44 A46 A422 A435 A441 A442 A448 A449 A456 A491 A4025 A4536

Service Stations	Frankley services Hopwood Park services Strensham services

Other	Icknield Street List of settlements on the A38

Rail

Main lines	Cross-City Line Cross Country Route North Warwickshire Line Birmingham to Worcester via Bromsgrove Line Birmingham to Worcester via Kidderminster Line Cotswold Line

Closed lines	Oxford-Worcester-Wolverhampton Line (Dudley to Wolverhampton section)

Stations	Alvechurch Barnt Green Blakedown Bromsgrove Droitwich Spa Evesham Great Malvern Hagley Hartlebury Honeybourne Kidderminster Malvern Link Pershore Redditch Worcester Foregate Street Worcester Shrub Hill Wythall

Closed stations	Astwood Bank Aston-under-Hill Beckford Bengeworth Bredon Eckington Foley Park Halt Hinton Littleton and Badsey Malvern Wells Ripple Upton-on-Severn Wadborough

Heritage stations	Arley Bewdley Kidderminster Town Northwood Halt

Heritage Railways	Severn Valley Railway

Railway under construction	Broadway Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway

Buses

Routes	Worcestershire bus route 144

Companies	Diamond Bus First Midland Red

Other	Bus transport in Bromsgrove

Waterways

Rivers	River Arrow River Avon River Severn River Stour River Teme

Canals	Droitwich Canal Leominster Canal Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal Worcester and Birmingham Canal

Other	Diglis Basin Hampton Ferry Tardebigge Engine House Tardebigge Locks

Footpaths

Long-distance footpaths	Cotswold Way Monarch's Way Severn Way Worcestershire Way Wychavon Way

Cycle Paths

Railway stations in Worcestershire

Hereford to London:
Cotswold Line

Birmingham to Cardiff:

Birmingham to Worcester
via Bromsgrove:

Birmingham to Worcester
via Kidderminster:

Lichfield to Redditch:
Cross-City Line

Birmingham to Stratford-upon-Avon:

Wythall

Heritage railway stations

Gloucs-Warks Steam Railway

Broadway (Proposed)
Weston-sub-Edge (Proposed)
Honeybourne (Proposed)

Severn Valley Railway:

Arley
Northwood Halt
Bewdley
Kidderminster Town (adjacent to Kidderminster railway station)

Coordinates: 52°07′31″N 2°19′10″W / 52.125150°N 2.319403°W / 52.125150; -2.319403

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