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The Cotswold Line is a railway service running from Oxford to Worcester, serving the intermediate towns of Charlbury, Moreton-in-Marsh, Evesham and Pershore. Some services continue to Hereford via Malvern. more...
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Route
Towns and villages served by stations on the line are listed below, from east to west. The distance of each station from Oxford is given in kilometres.
Oxford;
Long Hanborough (sometimes called Handborough, 11 km from Oxford);
Combe (13 km);
Finstock (19 km);
Charlbury (21 km);
Ascott-under-Wychwood (27 km);
Shipton-under-Wychwood (29 km);
Kingham (34 km);
Moreton-in-Marsh (45 km);
Honeybourne (62 km);
Evesham (70 km);
Pershore (79 km);
Worcester Shrub Hill (92 km);
Worcester Foregate Street (93 km);
Malvern Link (104 km);
Great Malvern (105 km);
Colwall (110 km);
Ledbury (117 km);
Hereford (139 km);
Stations which have closed, many under the Beeching Axe were situated at Yarnton, Adlestrop, Blockley, Campden, Littleton and Badsey, Fladbury, Stoulton, Norton Junction, Rushwick (also called Henwick), Bransford Road, Newland Halt, Malvern Wells, Ashperton, Stoke Edith and Withington.
There are proposals for new stations at Rushwick and Withington. A long standing proposal for a new station at Worcester Parkway where the line crosses the Birmingham to Bristol line has made little progress.
The line is composed of all or part of the following Network Rail routes:
GW 200 from Oxford;
GW 310 from Wolvercot Junction;
GW 300 from Norton Junction;
GW 340 from Worcester Shrub Hill;
GW 730 from Shelwick Junction to Hereford;
Infrastructure
The line is single track between the following locations.
Wolvercot Junction (5 km North of Oxford) and Ascott-under-Wychwood.;
Moreton-in-Marsh and Norton Junction (5 km South East of Worcester), with a crossing place at Evesham.;
Worcester Shrub Hill and Worcester Foregate Street.;
Malvern Wells and Hereford with a crossing place at Ledbury.;
Other sections are double track.
Significant civil engineering structures on the line include Campden Tunnel (800 m in length), Colwall New Tunnel (1433 m), Ledbury Tunnel (1210 m) and viaducts at Worcester and Ledbury.
Services
Stopping patterns vary. No train calls at all the stations on the line.
First Great Western operate services between Oxford and Worcester with some continuing to Reading and London Paddington at the East end of the line and to Hereford in the West. Between Worcester and Hereford there are additional services operated by Central Trains. A First Great Western service, formerly operated by Wessex Trains, runs infrequently between Great Malvern and Worcester Shrub Hill as an extension of their Bristol-Worcester service.
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