Hereford  | |||||
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| General information | |||||
| Location | Hereford,Herefordshire England | ||||
| Coordinates | 52°03′41″N2°42′30″W / 52.06139°N 2.70833°W /52.06139; -2.70833 | ||||
| Grid reference | SO515405 | ||||
| Managed by | Transport for Wales | ||||
| Platforms | 4 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | HFD | ||||
| Classification | DfT category C1 | ||||
| History | |||||
| Original company | Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway | ||||
| Pre-grouping | Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway | ||||
| Post-grouping | Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway | ||||
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| 6 December 1853 (1853-12-06) | Opened asHereford Barr's Court | ||||
| 1893 | RenamedHereford | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2020/21 |  0.500 million | ||||
| Interchange | 7,585 | ||||
| 2021/22 |  1.003 million | ||||
| Interchange | 31,474 | ||||
| 2022/23 | 1.117 million | ||||
| Interchange | 38,364 | ||||
| 2023/24 | 1.161 million | ||||
| Interchange | 43,926 | ||||
| 2024/25 | 1.230 million | ||||
| Interchange | 45,539 | ||||
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Hereford railway station serves the city ofHereford, inHerefordshire, England. Managed byTransport for Wales, it lies on theWelsh Marches Line, betweenLeominster andAbergavenny; it is also the western terminus of theCotswold Line, for services toBirmingham New Street. The station has four platforms for passenger trains and two additional relief lines for goods services.
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There were originally two stations in Hereford: Barton and Barrs Court.
Hereford Barton lay to the west of the city[nb 1] and had been built by theNewport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway (NA&HR). However, Barton was small and in a cramped location; it was not big enough nor could it be enlarged for the greater traffic that would entail from the arrival of theShrewsbury and Hereford Railway from the north.
The resolution was an agreement to create a new joint railway station to the north-east of the city, calledHereford Barrs Court. This would be a joint standard gauge/broad gauge station, sponsored jointly by the standard-gauge Shrewsbury & Hereford Railway (S&HR) and the GWR-sponsoredHereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway (HR&GR). When theMidland Railway sponsoredHereford, Hay and Brecon Railway entered the town, they were given access rights, as was the laterWorcester and Hereford Railway,[1] which joined the S&HR's route to the north of the city at Shelwick Junction.
In the civil engineering preparation for this, and as the only company planning to enter the town from the north, the S&HR built a brick works north ofDinmore Hill in 1849, which was fed byclay from the earthworks of digging a tunnel south underneath it. In 1852,2+1⁄2 years later and having used3+1⁄4 million bricks the tunnel was completed, freight traffic started in July 1852 to provide cash flow. However, construction continued, with the massive earthworks for a cutting to enter Barrs Court started in August 1852.[1]
The plan was to jointly open both stations between all four railways on 6 December 1853, with what was planned to be aRailway Fete. However, the first S&HR passenger service arrived at Barrs Court on Saturday 28 October, which carried the chairman Mr Ormsby-Gore and engineerThomas Brassey.[1] As the negotiations and financing of the joint station had taken so long, they arrived at an incomplete facility.[2] Whilst completion of the station would follow shortly after, significant rebuilding would occur later in the nineteenth century, when the currentVictorian Gothic buildings, designed by R.E. Johnson,[3] would be constructed.[4] The station opened on 6 December 1853 and the name was simplified to Hereford in 1893, on the closure of Barton station to passengers.[5]
The clock byJ. B. Joyce & Co was installed on the frontage in 1857.[6]
In 1866, a line connecting the NA&HR's route to the south of the city, branching off from the line to Barton at Redhill and joining with the HR&GR's route into Barrs Court station from the south, rendered Barton station obsolete, as through north–south services could now utilise the larger and better equipped Barrs Court station. However, Barton clung onto passenger services until January 1893,[7] the last services to use it being Midland Railway trains toHay-on-Wye andBrecon Free Street. It would remain open as a goods-only station until 1979; the route through it from north to south was used as a goods-only line to avoid Barrs Court, also remained until approximately this time.[disputed (for: Its signalboxes had all closed in 1966) –discuss]
The former branches to Brecon via Hay-on-Wye and Gloucester both closed to passenger traffic in the early 1960s; Brecon services were withdrawn from 31 December 1962,[8] whilst the Gloucester viaRoss-on-Wye line fell victim to theBeeching Axe on 2 November 1964.[9]
The station was designated aGrade II listed building in 1973.[10]
The station is staffed seven days a week, with a ticket office, café, waiting rooms and self-serviceticket machines available. There is a 146-space car park and 50 spaces for bicycles.[11]
It was accordedSecure Station status in 2004[12] and automated ticket barriers have been in operation since 28 February 2006.[4]
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Hereford is served by threetrain operating companies:
On Sundays, the service to Birmingham New Street is reduced to 1 tp2h, the service to London Paddington is reduced to 3 tpd and the service to Holyhead is reduced to 2 tpd.
| Preceding station |  National Rail | Following station | ||
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| Transport for Wales | ||||
| Transport for Wales | ||||
| Terminus | West Midlands Railway Hereford to Birmingham | Ledbury | ||
| West Midlands Railway Hereford to Dorridge | ||||
| Great Western Railway Cotswold Line | ||||
| Historical railways | ||||
| Holme Lacy | Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway British Railways | Terminus | ||
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