Leominster railway station lies on the Welsh Marches Line serving the Herefordshire town of Leominster in England. It is situated 11+1⁄4 miles (18.1 km) north of Hereford.

Leominster
General information
Location	Leominster, Herefordshire England
Coordinates	52.225°N 2.730°W / 52.225; -2.730
Grid reference	SO501588
Managed by	Transport for Wales
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	LEO
Classification	DfT category E
Passengers
2016/17	0.260 million
2017/18	0.262 million
2018/19	0.256 million
Interchange	13
2019/20	0.244 million
2020/21	0.107 million
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Leominster has 2 operational platforms for north (Ludlow) and south (Hereford) bound trains respectively, though in the past it had three more to the east of the ones now in use.

History

Developed jointly by the Great Western Railway and the LNWR, it was originally a through station on their joint Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway. The GWR then took over two independently financed and developed branch lines, creating a busy junction station:

• Leominster and Kington Railway to Kington and Presteigne (Platforms 3/4)
• Worcester, Bromyard and Leominster Railway to Worcester (Platforms 4/5)

Both branches were however closed to passenger traffic by British Railways in the 1950s – services to Worcester ended in 1952 and to Kington in 1955.

Facilities

The station has a ticket office on platform 1, that is manned on a part-time basis on weekdays only (06:55 – 13:25). There is a self-service ticket machine provided for use outside of these times and for collecting pre-paid tickets. Platform 2 has a shelter only, whilst there are customer help points, digital information displays and automatic announcements provided to offer train running details on both sides.. Though the footbridge linking the platforms has stairs, level access is provided to each platform.[1]

Service today

Leominster now sees a regular service to important cities. The Monday-Saturday off-peak service is:

• 1 train per hour (tph) to Manchester Piccadilly, calling at Ludlow, Craven Arms, Church Stretton, Shrewsbury, Crewe, Wilmslow and Stockport.[2] (certain trains also call at Whitchurch and Nantwich).
• 1 tph to Carmarthen, calling at Hereford, Abergavenny, Cwmbran, Newport, Cardiff Central, Bridgend, Port Talbot Parkway, Neath, Swansea, Llanelli and Pembrey and Burry Port.
  • This journey is extended to Milford Haven every two hours, calling at Whitland, Clunderwen (request stop), Clarbeston Road (request stop), Haverfordwest and Johnston (request stop).

On Sundays there is also an hourly service each way, though trains do not start running until mid-morning. This include a departure northbound to Chester and Holyhead in the late afternoon.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Hereford		Transport for Wales Welsh Marches Line		Ludlow
	Disused railways
Kingsland Line and station closed		Great Western Railway Leominster and Kington Railway		Terminus
Terminus		Great Western Railway Worcester, Bromyard and Leominster Railway		Stoke Prior Halt Line and station closed

References

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2004). Worcester to Hereford. West Sussex: Middleton Press. figs. 40–42. ISBN 9781904474388. OCLC 862604858.
• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2007). Ludlow to Hereford. Middleton Press. pp. 25–34. ISBN 9781906008147. OCLC 258060509.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Leominster railway station.

• Train times and station information for Leominster railway station from National Rail