page_title: Ledbury railway station
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Ledbury railway station / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Hereford to Paddington express at Ledbury. View westward, towards Hereford; ex-GWR London/Birmingham - Worcester - Hereford main line, junction (left at end of Down platform) of branch to Gloucester (closed 13/7/59). On the right is the small Shed for engines employed to bank trains through the tunnels to/from Malvern. The 11.45 express from Hereford is headed by 4-6-0 No. 5998 'Trevor Hall'; running via Great Malvern, Worcester and Oxford, it is due at Paddington at 15.50.
context_page_description: Ledbury railway station is a railway station on the outskirts of the town of Ledbury on the Worcester to Hereford line in the English Midlands. It has regular services to Birmingham plus several direct trains a day to London Paddington.
context_section_description: The line was originally built by the West Midland Railway who opened Ledbury station on 15 September 1861. A branch line from Ledbury to Gloucester, via Dymock and Newent opened in July 1885 for which a new signal box was opened at Ledbury replacing one or perhaps two earlier signal boxes and controlling a small engine shed on the north side of the station and a goods yard on the south.
  The Newent branch was closed in 1959, and the goods yard and engine shed closed in 1965, leaving just the station itself.  The modern station comprises two platforms with waiting shelters and car parking facilities, the station is unusual in having a privately run ticket office located in a wooden chalet by the entrance.
caption: Hereford to Paddington express in 1958
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