Bromsgrove railway station

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Bromsgrove
Location
Place	Bromsgrove
Local authority	Bromsgrove
Operations
Station code	BMV
Managed by	London Midland
Platforms in use	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	0.173 million
2005/06 *	0.210 million
2006/07 *	0.207 million
2007/08 *	0.230 million
History
Opened 1840 (1840)
National Rail - UK railway stations
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Bromsgrove from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Bromsgrove railway station serves the town of Bromsgrove in Worcestershire. It is located at the foot of the two mile Lickey Incline which ascends at a gradient of 1 in 37.7 towards Barnt Green on the line between Birmingham and Worcester. The station opened as part of the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (later part of the Midland Railway) in 1840^[1]. In June 1969^[2] the station was rebuilt with a single platform on the up (northbound) side, which require stopping down (southbound) trains to cross to the up line and back again after calling at Bromsgrove station. A new platform on the down side was opened in May 1990^[3].

The station and most trains serving it are operated by London Midland. A small number of CrossCountry services also call there.

[edit] Rebuilding

On 4 May 2007, Network Rail announced that a new station will be built, to replace the existing structure. This is proposed to be in a brownfield site adjacent to the current site, and allow six car trains to stop at the station. The cost was originally projected to be in the region of £10-12 million,^[4] and it was estimated that the station could be operational by Easter 2009.^[5] However, by June 2009 the project was still only in the development stage.^[6] Phase two of the project is set to see the electrification of the line from Bromsgrove to Barnt Green between 2011 and 2014. This is expected to result in an extra three trains per hour on the Cross-City Line serving the new station.

[edit] References

1. ^ Jowett's Railway Centres Volume 1, Alan Jowett (PSL, 1993)
2. ^ A Century of Railways Around Birmingham and the West Midlands, Volumes 2, John Boynton (Mid England Books, 1998)
3. ^ A Century of Railways Around Birmingham and the West Midlands, Volumes 3, John Boynton (Mid England Books, 1999)
4. ^ Network Rail News Releases: Bromsgrove to get new station
5. ^ "Bromsgrove Rail User Group". http://www.bromsgroverail.org.uk/newstation.html. Retrieved 14 January 2010. 
6. ^ "Network Rail schemes in development". http://www.networkrail.co.uk/aspx/4465.aspx. Retrieved 9 June 2009. 

[edit] External links

• lickeyincline.com, a Website dedictated to the Railway Line between Bromsgrove & Barnt Green
• Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands: Bromsgrove station

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University		London Midland Birmingham-Hereford		Droitwich Spa
Barnt Green Peak times

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Blackwell Station Closed and Line Open		Stoke Branch Great Western Railway Later British Rail		Stoke Works Station Closed and Line Open

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Coordinates: 52°19′23″N 2°02′53″W / 52.323°N 2.048°W / 52.323; -2.048