Honeybourne railway station
| General information | |||||
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| Location | Honeybourne, Wychavon England | ||||
| Coordinates | 52°06′04″N 1°50′06″W / 52.101°N 1.835°W | ||||
| Grid reference | SP114448 | ||||
| Managed by | Great Western Railway | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | HYB | ||||
| Classification | DfT category F2 | ||||
| History | |||||
| Original company | Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway | ||||
| Pre-grouping | Great Western Railway | ||||
| Post-grouping | Great Western Railway | ||||
| Key dates | |||||
| 4 June 1853 | Opened | ||||
| 5 May 1969 | Closed | ||||
| 22 May 1981 | Reopened | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2019/20 | 71,830 | ||||
| 2020/21 | 16,280 | ||||
| 2021/22 | 64,078 | ||||
| 2022/23 | 85,768 | ||||
| 2023/24 | 92,244 | ||||
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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 to Stratford-upon Avon and closure to freight. The whole of the Stratford to Cheltenham line was closed in late August 1976, after derailment of some wagons on a goods train damaged a section of the track. Honeybourne was reopened in 1981, in connection with residential development near the station. The Heritage Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway has reopened the 14-mile (23 km) section of the 22-mile (35 km)-long Honeybourne Line, between Broadway and Cheltenham Racecourse, and hopes to extend its operations a further 5 miles (8.0 km), to Honeybourne, for which Network Rail has made passive provision.