Hagley  | |||||
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| General information | |||||
| Location | Hagley,Bromsgrove England | ||||
| Coordinates | 52°25′19″N2°08′49″W / 52.422°N 2.147°W /52.422; -2.147 | ||||
| Grid reference | SO901805 | ||||
| Owned by | Network Rail | ||||
| Managed by | West Midlands Trains | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
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| Station code | HAG | ||||
| Classification | DfT category E | ||||
| History | |||||
| Original company | Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway | ||||
| Pre-grouping | Great Western Railway | ||||
| Post-grouping | Great Western Railway | ||||
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| 1862 (1862) | First appearance in timetables | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2019/20 |  0.492 million | ||||
| 2020/21 | 0.278 million | ||||
| 2021/22 |  0.300 million | ||||
| 2022/23 | 0.362 million | ||||
| 2023/24 | 0.440 million | ||||
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Hagley railway station serves theEnglish village ofHagley,Worcestershire. Trains call in each direction, running to or throughKidderminster westwards and throughStourbridge andBirmingham Snow Hill eastwards. Customer Information Screens are installed on either platform.[1] All services are operated byWest Midlands Trains.
The station retains one of itsGreat Western Railway era station buildings and its canopied footbridge, both dating from 1884. Although typical of its era, very few examples of that kind of ornamental ironwork bridge now survive and it was listed grade 2 in 2000.[2] When it was refurbished in late 2011, the colours reverted from its former navy blue and white to the original GWR cream and salmon livery.[3] The footbridge was also used byHornby as the basis for its 00 Gauge model.[4]
The original village of Hagley was a mile away uphill; when its station first appeared in timetables in 1862 as part of theOxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway, it was a rough and ready structure with platforms built of old sleepers. With the line subsequently being taken over by theGreat Western Railway, and the expansion of Lower Hagley along the nearby road to Worcester, there was a demand for a proper building with a station approach up to it.[5] Canopied brick buildings were constructed on either side of the line at this time. While the one on the Stourbridge side housed waiting rooms and toilets, on the Kidderminster and Station Drive side there was the stationmaster's office, the ticket office, and two more waiting rooms and toilets.
Under him the stationmaster had a booking clerk and three porters as well as someone to deliver parcels and personal luggage. There were also three signalmen at the box beyond the Brake Lane bridge and maintenance workers responsible for the track and embankments. The signal box has now gone while the building on the Stourbridge platform has been demolished and replaced with a metal shelter. In the former goods yard north of the station on Brake Lane werecoal merchants and the offices responsible for dealing with livestock brought by train for sale at the Monday cattle market, which was located uphill in the old village (at the junction of theA491 and theA456). Where the sidings for coal trucks and the cattle pens used to be, there is now a private housing development named The Sidings after the site.[6]
Off-peakWest Midlands Railway services call half-hourly in each direction, running toKidderminster westwards, with some services extending to Worcester (Foregate Street before 9pm and thereafterShrub Hill (Mondays to Saturdays) and throughStourbridge andBirmingham Snow Hill eastwards. Additional trains (making the service 3tph or 4tph also call during the morning and evening peaks. A half hourly service runs in the late evenings and an hourly service on Sundays.[7][8]
From September 2002 until May 2023,Chiltern Railways peak-hour services fromKidderminster toLondon Marylebone called at Hagley.[9][10][11][12]
