Droitwich Spa  | |||||
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| Location | Droitwich Spa,Wychavon England | ||||
| Grid reference | SO892633 | ||||
| Managed by | West Midlands Railway | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
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| Station code | DTW | ||||
| Classification | DfT category E | ||||
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| Opened | 1852 | ||||
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| 2019/20 |  0.520 million | ||||
| Interchange |  80,587 | ||||
| 2020/21 | 0.134 million | ||||
| Interchange | 20,066 | ||||
| 2021/22 | 0.326 million | ||||
| Interchange | 43,894 | ||||
| 2022/23 | 0.397 million | ||||
| Interchange | 34,666 | ||||
| 2023/24 | 0.464 million | ||||
| Interchange | 48,167 | ||||
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Droitwich Spa railway station serves the town ofDroitwich Spa inWorcestershire, England. It is located just to the south-west ofDroitwich Spa Junction of theWorcester toLeamington Spa Line and theWorcester toBirmingham New Street line. The station is managed byWest Midlands Trains, who also operate all trains serving it.
Droitwich Spa railway station was opened in 1852 (then called simply 'Droitwich') as part of theOxford-Worcester-Wolverhampton Line by theOxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway, which was soon to come under the auspices of theGreat Western Railway.
Plans for a new station began around 1892.[1] The Great Western Railway company put the construction of the new station out to tender in 1897 and the contractor was Mr. Bloxham. It was constructed on land given byJohn Corbett and the construction cost around £7,000 (equivalent to £1,000,000 in 2023).[2] The platforms were 500 feet (150 m) long with sheltering verandahs in the station. The new station was opened on 3 June 1899[3] and this fulfilled the demands of providing accommodation for 200,000 passengers annually using the 16 G.W.R. trains and 12 Midland Railway trains in each direction per day. It was in 1899[4] that the 'Spa' suffix was added.
The station was linked into theMidland Railway's main line betweenBirmingham New Street andGloucester by means of a short branch line toStoke Works Junction, south ofBromsgrove. This also allowed trains from the Worcester direction to run to New Street (by means of running powers over MR metals) as well as the GWR station atSnow Hill. Originally built as a double line, it was singled in 1969 when GloucesterPower Signal Box took over control of the main line south ofBarnt Green.
Before 2012 there was only a limited service (five trains each way) between New St and Worcester/Hereford. However, following the December timetable change on 9 December 2012, London Midland increased the frequency of services toBirmingham New Street to hourly in the afternoon, and bi-hourly in the mornings.[5][6]
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Droitwich Spa Junction is a railway junction located 250 metres (800 ft) north-east of the station.
The junction sees theBirmingham to Worcester via Bromsgrove Line branch off from the main line - theBirmingham to Worcester via Kidderminster Line. Part of this line is a surviving section of theOxford-Worcester-Wolverhampton Line and is these days used by trains heading towardsKidderminster,Stourbridge Junction andBirmingham Snow Hill. The branch meanwhile joins the main Birmingham to Bristol line at Stoke Works Junction, south of Bromsgrove - services over this line then continue via the famousLickey Incline en route toBirmingham New Street.
Droitwich Spasignal box controls the junction and is located between the diverging lines. The whole of the junction is controlled by semaphore signals from theBritish RailWestern Region era. The box interfaces with the West Midlands Signal Control Centre, Stourbridge Desk (at Saltley) on the main line towards Kidderminster and West Midlands Signal Control Centre, Bromsgrove Desk (at Saltley) on the branch, using the Track Circuit Block system - the latter becomes a single line just beyond the junction and remains so until joining the main line at Stoke Works. To the south, the next box is located at Worcester Tunnel Junction, north ofWorcester Shrub Hill, signalled via the Absolute Block system.
The service pattern from the station has varied somewhat over the years, particularly after most services via Kidderminster were diverted to New St in 1967 as part of the plans to close Snow Hill (the service via Bromsgrove subsequently becoming peak-hours only). Today though, travellers from the station once again have a choice of stations in Birmingham following the reopening of Snow Hill in 1995 and there are regular services on both routes into the city.
West Midlands Railway serve the station on both routes from Worcester to Birmingham, using theSnow Hill Lines via Kidderminster for services via Moor Street and Snow Hill, and theCross-City Line after Bromsgrove on New Street bound services.
As of May 2023 the typical weekday off-peak service from the station is:[7][8][9]
Birmingham to Worcester via Bromsgrove line:
Birmingham to Worcester via Kidderminster line:
On Sundays, the Worcester to Stratford via Moor Street service runs every hour, continuing eastbound to Stratford-upon-Avon viaShirley.
On the Birmingham New Street to Hereford route, services to both Birmingham and Worcester remain hourly on Sundays, with 2-hourly extentions to all stations south of Worcester.
Services on theSnow Hill line are generally served byClass 172 DMUs and services on theHereford line are served byClass 196 DMUs.
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