Blakedown railway station serves the

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Blakedown Blakedown is a village in the Wyre Forest District lying along the A456 in the north of the county of Worcestershire, England. Following enclosures and the arrival of the railway, it developed both agriculturally and industrially during the 19th c ...

Worcestershire Worcestershire ( , ; written abbreviation: Worcs) is a county in the West Midlands of England. The area that is now Worcestershire was absorbed into the unified Kingdom of England in 927, at which time it was constituted as a county (see His ...

. It was opened (as ''Churchill station'') in 1852, later becoming known for a time as ''Churchill & Blakedown'' after the two villages became a single parish. The station is unstaffed, with only a basic shelter on each platform. There is a

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immediately to the west of the platforms, and in the absence of a

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or subway this is also the only method for passengers to cross the tracks. The platforms were lengthened in the 1990s to allow longer trains to call (see image - the hollow space and the white fence mark the extension). This is because Blakedown is within the Birmingham commuter band and over the twenty years between 1998 - 2018 usage of the station has increased by 147%. Currently there is a proposal to develop a car park on an adjacent field site to cater for further anticipated growth. Since August 2012 the signalling system has been altered, with the former signal box having been closed and control of the nearby crossing and signals transferred to the West Midlands SCC at Saltley. The old signal box was then acquired by the Churchill and Blakedown Historical Society for their headquarters and was shifted across the road to a site adjoining the station in 2016.

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Kidderminster-London service per weekday calls at Blakedown, at 08:13, as of the 2017 timetable. Since 2017, trains run every 30 minutes each way, with off-peak trains terminating at Kidderminster westbound, and eastbound services running alternately to and . Through services are available to both Worcester stations at peak periods. There is a two-hourly service from the station each way on Sundays, with through trains to and from Worcester. Blakedown station geograph-3937559-by-Ben-Brooksbank

Blakedown station geograph-3937559-by-Ben-Brooksbank

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Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands: Blakedown station
Railway stations in Worcestershire DfT Category F1 stations Former Great Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1852 Railway stations served by Chiltern Railways Railway stations served by West Midlands Trains 1852 establishments in England {{WestMidlands-railstation-stub

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