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Cotswold LineThe Cotswold Line is a railway line running from Oxford to Worcester, serving the intermediate towns of Moreton-in-Marsh, Evesham and Pershore. Some services continue to Hereford via Malvern. Stations Stations on the line from East to West are listed below: Stations which have closed, many under the Beeching Axe were situated at Yarnton, Adlestrop, Blockley, Campden, Littleton and Badsey, Fladbury, Stoulton, Norton Junction, Rushwick (also called Henwick), Bransford Road, Newland Halt, Malvern Wells, Ashperton, Stoke Edith and Withington. There are proposals for new stations at Rushwick and Withington. A long standing proposal for a new station at Worcester Parkway where the line crosses the Birmingham to Bristol line has made little progress. Infrastructure The line is single track between the following locations. Other sections are double track. Significant civil engineering structures on the line include Campden Tunnel (800 m in length), Colwall New Tunnel (1433 m), Ledbury Tunnel (1210 m) and viaducts at Worcester and Ledbury. Services Stopping patterns vary. No train calls at all the stations on the line. First Great Western and First Great Western Link operate services between Oxford and Worcester with some continuing to Reading and London Paddington at the East end of the line and to Hereford in the West. Between Worcester and Hereford there are additional services operated by Central Trains. History The line between Oxford and Worcester was constructed under an 1845 Act of Parliament and opened in 1851 as part of the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway. The Act required the line to be built to Brunel's broad gauge but delays, disputes and increasing costs led to it being completed at standard gauge. The Worcester and Hereford Railway opened in stages between 1859 and 1861 when it merged with the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway to form the West Midland Railway. The West Midland Railway became part of the Great Western Railway in 1863. Poetry The line features in two well known poems. http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poem2198.html|Adlestrop by Edward Thomas (poet) and Station, or A Liverish Journey First Class'' by Sir John Betjeman External Link The Cotswold Line Promotion Group is a voluntary organisation with the aim of safeguarding and promoting improvements to rail and bus feeder services along the line.
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