Broadway railway station is a railway station on the heritage Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway in the town of Broadway in Worcestershire, England.

Broadway
The station in 1962
General information
Location	Broadway, Wychavon England
Platforms	2
History
Original company	Great Western Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
1 October 1904	Opened
7 March 1960	Closed to passengers[1]
1 June 1964	Goods facilities withdrawn[2]
30 March 2018	Reopened

History

The original station opened in 1904, and closed to passengers in 1960; the original station buildings was demolished in Autumn 1963[3] although the line through the site remained open for regular passenger trains until 1968 and goods until official closure in November 1976.

Stationmasters

• George James Fifield 1904[4] - ca. 1920
• Sidney James Prothero 1928 - 1935
• William Barber 1935 - 1942[5] (afterwards station master at Stoke Edith)
• E.T. Rose 1942[6] - 1944 (formerly station master at Bewdley, afterwards station master at Shipston-under-Wychwood)
• W.L. Mann 1944 - 1945
• W.S.B.M. Allen 1945[7] - 1950
• W.H. Jennings from 1950[8]

Preservation

The GWR Broadway Area Group of the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway Trust started work clearing the derelict site in 2009. As of May 2018, both platforms had been reconstructed, a signal box on platform 2 had been rebuilt and was being fitted out with necessary signalling equipment, the footbridge span (from Henley-in-Arden railway station; no steps yet) had been erected and the main station building had been completed with toilets and a booking office along with the canopy and roof, except for a further canopy section at the north end to connect with the footbridge.[9][10] The rebuilding of Broadway station was largely completed in 2017.[11]

The four mile section of track from Toddington towards Broadway station was relaid from 2015 to 2018.[12] Fund raising included a 2016 share offer, "Broadway: the last mile", to complete the last mile of track.[13] Tracklaying commenced in the cutting north of the station during summer 2017 and was completed by year end. Until March 2018 trains had run as far as Laverton Halt[14] and from May 2017 onwards to Little Buckland until the first train since 1960 arrived at Broadway Station on Christmas Eve 2017 after volunteers had finished laying the track on 23 December 2017,[15][16] an English Electric Class 20 and Electro Diesel Class 73 pulling in the first works train.^{[citation needed]}

The first test steam train was hauled by 7903 'Foremarke Hall' on 9 March 2018[17] and the first passenger train (for volunteers) was, on 21 March 2018, hauled by 35006 'Peninsular & Oriental S. N. Co.';[17] public passenger services began on 30 March 2018.[15][18] At the end of May 2018 the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway saw an increase in overall passenger numbers of over 14,000 passengers compared to the previous May, primarily due to the opening of the station at Broadway.

Preceding station	Heritage railways			Following station
Terminus		Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway		Toddington
	Historical railways
Willersey Halt Line and station closed		Great Western Railway Honeybourne Line		Laverton Halt Line open, station closed

References

External links

v t e Railway lines in Worcestershire
Legend
Kidderminster line to Birmingham Snow Hill Cross-City Line to Birmingham New Street Hagley Birmingham–Stratford line to Birmingham Moor Street Wythall Blakedown Birmingham–Stratford line to Stratford-upon-Avon Barnt Green Kidderminster Town Kidderminster Blackwell Alvechurch Foley Park Halt Lickey Incline Bewdley Tunnel Redditch Rifle Range Halt Stourport-on-Severn Gloucester loop line via Alcester Hartlebury Bromsgrove Bewdley Cutnall Green Halt Stoke Works Northwood Halt Droitwich Spa Junction Wyre Forest Droitwich Spa Arley Newnham Bridge Fernhill Heath Severn Valley Railway to Bridgnorth Blackpole Halt Easton Court Astwood Halt Tenbury and Bewdley Railway to Woofferton Droitwich Road Worcester Tunnel Junction Dunhampstead Worcester TMD Oddingley Spetchley Vinegar works Worcester Shrub Hill Worcester Foregate Street Norton Worcestershire Parkway Stoulton former freight branch Pershore River Severn Abbot's Wood Junction Wyre Halt Henwick Fladbury Boughton Halt Wadborough Rushwick Halt Defford Leigh Court Eckington Knightwick Bredon Bransford Road Gloucester loop line via Alcester Suckley Harvington Worcester, Bromyard & Leominster Rly to Leominster Evesham Newland Halt Bengeworth Malvern Link Hinton Great Malvern Ashton-under-Hill Malvern Hanley Road Beckford Upton-on-Severn Littleton and Badsey Ripple Honeybourne Malvern Wells Cotswold Line to Hereford Honeybourne Line to Stratford-upon-Avon Ashchurch for Tewkesbury Cotswold Line to Oxford Cross Country Route to Cheltenham Spa Broadway Gloucestershire Warwickshire Rly to Cheltenham Racecourse

• Railway station website
• Steaming to Broadway! - Blog covering the start of the restoration project
• Broadway Station Rebuild - Blog covering the later stages of the rebuild