Colwall railway station is a railway station on the

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serving the village of

Colwall Colwall is a civil parish in Herefordshire, England, situated on the border with Worcestershire, nestling on the western side of the Malvern Hills at the heart of the AONB. Areas of the village are known as Colwall Stone, Upper Colwall which sha ...

Herefordshire Herefordshire () is a county in the West Midlands of England, governed by Herefordshire Council. It is bordered by Shropshire to the north, Worcestershire to the east, Gloucestershire to the south-east, and the Welsh counties of Monmouthshire ...

, England. The station has one platform with seating. There is no ticket office; a passenger-operated

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machine is installed, and there has been a ticket machine (for use with credit and debit cards only) since 2015. The station was opened in 1861, the same year as the Hereford and Worcester Railway Line. Today services are available direct to

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and

Hereford Hereford () is a cathedral city, civil parish and the county town of Herefordshire, England. It lies on the River Wye, approximately east of the border with Wales, south-west of Worcester and north-west of Gloucester. With a population ...

. To the west lies

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and to the east, the

Colwall Tunnels The Colwall Tunnels are a pair of railway tunnels that connect Colwall and Malvern Wells on the Cotswold Line, passing under the Malvern Hills in the Welsh Marches region of England. The original route planned for the Worcester and Hereford Rai ...

. The station is close to the Colwall Park Hotel and the (now defunct) Malvern Water bottling plant.

Services

The station is served by two operators -

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run an hourly service to Hereford and

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via Worcester Foregate Street and with some trains will continue to via on Sundays, whilst GWR run a limited service between Hereford and London Paddington via . As this station has a short platform, passengers can only alight at Colwall from the front 4 carriages of the train.

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Railway stations in Herefordshire DfT Category F2 stations Former Great Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1861 Railway stations served by Great Western Railway Railway stations served by West Midlands Trains 1861 establishments in England {{WestMidlands-railstation-stub

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