page_title: Ashchurch for Tewkesbury railway station
section_title: Services
hierarchical_section_title: Ashchurch for Tewkesbury railway station / Services
caption_attribution_description: English: 150129 arrives at Ashchurch with a Great Western Railway service from Great Malvern to Westbury by way of Gloucester and Bristol.
context_page_description: Ashchurch for Tewkesbury is a railway station serving the North Gloucestershire and South Worcestershire Area from the outskirts of Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, England. The station is located less than ¹⁄₄ mile from junction 9 of the M5 motorway and located on the main Bristol–Birmingham main line 7 ¹⁄₄ miles north of Cheltenham Spa and was opened on 1 June 1997 by Railtrack. There are regular bus connections from near the station to Tewkesbury town centre, which is located two miles to the west.
context_section_description: The station is served by two operators. Great Western Railway (GWR) (who manage the station) operate a two-hourly service from Ashchurch to Worcester Shrub Hill in the north (some continue through to Great Malvern), and to Cheltenham Spa, Gloucester, Bristol Temple Meads and Westbury in the south, with occasional through trains to either Weymouth or Brighton.
  A small number of CrossCountry services between Cardiff Central and Nottingham stop here, providing direct trains to Birmingham (mainly in the morning and evening peaks). In the December 2019 timetable, one morning Birmingham service (from Gloucester) continues through to Stansted Airport via Leicester and Peterborough rather than Nottingham.
  West Midlands Trains's Worcester to Gloucester (calling at Cheltenham and Ashchurch) service has been discontinued since the start of the December 2009 railway timetable due to low passenger usage as has a single service from Birmingham New Street to Gloucester on Friday nights which ran until May 2019.
  On Sundays, the service is limited to five trains each way and is provided entirely by GWR.
  In 2010 the Ashchurch and Tewkesbury District Rail Promotion Group began campaigning for an improved service to the station. They highlighted the close proximity of the station to Junction 9 of the M5 and the free car-park as being attractive to potential commuters. Cross Country trains run 3 trains per hour in each direction through without stopping and appear to have the potential capacity in the timetable to stop. The group also point out that official figures from the office of rail regulation show 67,000 passengers buying tickets to or from the station in 2008–09. Most other stations with that level of patronage have at least an hourly service. The need for an hourly service between Worcester and Cheltenham has previously been noted by other passenger groups.
caption: A southbound Great Western Railway service
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