Honeybourne Railway Station

Honeybourne railway station serves the village of Honeybourne in Worcestershire, England. Opened in 1853, it is on the Cotswold Line and was formerly a busy junction with five platform faces, also serving trains on the Great Western Railway's Honeybourne Line between Cheltenham Spa and Stratford-upon-Avon, which formed part of a strategic route between the West Midlands and the West of England.

The station was closed in 1969 after the withdrawal of stopping services and closure to freight, and the whole of the Stratford to Cheltenham line was closed in 1976. Honeybourne was reopened in 1981 in connection with residential development near the station. The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway has reopened a section of the Honeybourne Line between Toddington and Cheltenham Racecourse, and hopes to extend its operations to Honeybourne for which Network Rail has made passive provision.

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