Railways
First Great Western serves Honeybourne railway station on the Cotswold Line with direct train services to Worcester Shrub Hill, Oxford and London Paddington.
The Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway was built through the parish in the 1840s and opened Honeybourne station. The Great Western Railway took over the OW&W in 1862 and enlarged Honeybourne station in the 1900s when it built the railway between Stratford-upon-Avon and Cheltenham Spa.
British Railways closed the line between Stratford and Cheltenham, reduced the OW&W line to single track and reduced Honeybourne station to one platform. BR later rebranded this part of the former OW&W Railway as the Cotswold Line.
Network Rail has recently restored parts of the Cotswold Line to double track and has now enlarged Honeybourne to two platforms with a rather large, wheelchair-accessible bridge.
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