The Cotswold Line
Cotswold Line is an 86 1⁄2-mile (139.2 km) railway line between Oxford and Hereford in England.

Contents

1 Route 2 Infrastructure 3 Improvement works 2008–2011 4 New station proposals 5 Services 6 History 7 Poetry 8 Route detail

8.1 Oxford to Charlbury 8.2 Charlbury to Moreton-in-Marsh 8.3 Moreton-in-Marsh to Hereford

9 Usage 10 References 11 Sources and further reading 12 External links

Route[edit] The line comprises all or part of the following Network Rail routes:[1]

GW 200 from Oxford GW 310 from Wolvercot Junction GW 300 from Norton Junction GW 340 from Worcester Shrub Hill GW 730 from Shelwick Junction to Hereford

Infrastructure[edit] The line is single track between the following places:

Wolvercot Junction, (about 3 miles or 5 kilometres north of Oxford) and Charlbury. 1 mile or 1.6 kilometres west of Evesham and Norton Junction
Norton Junction (3 miles or 4.8 kilometres south east of Worcester Shrub Hill) Worcester Shrub Hill through Worcester Foregate Street to Henwick. Malvern Wells, (1 mile or 1.6 kilometres south of Great Malvern) and Shelwick Junction (1.7 miles or 2.7 kilometres north of Hereford) with a crossing place at Ledbury.

Other sections are double track. Significant civil engineering structures on the line include Campden Tunnel (875 yards or 800 metres), the Colwall Tunnels (1,567 yards or 1,433 metres), Ledbury Tunnel
Ledbury Tunnel (1,323 yards or 1,210 metres) and viaducts at Worcester and Ledbury. Improvement works 2008–2011[edit] Network Rail
Network Rail completed the redoubling of 20 miles (32 km) of track from just east of Charlbury to Ascott-under-Wychwood, and from Moreton-in-Marsh to about 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Evesham on 22 August 2011. This should improve reliability, enable non-stop operations and allow an hourly off peak service to run on the line.[2] The Office of Rail Regulation
Office of Rail Regulation approved the work in June 2008, although the planned work was over-budget and had to await final approval.[citation needed] In December 2008 vegetation was cleared.[3] A six-week closure of all or part of the line between Oxford and Worcester for preparatory works took place in July and August 2009. Further weekend work planned for February 2010 was postponed by Network Rail. Initial work began in autumn of 2010, with the majority of the second track being relaid between December 2010 and May 2011 when the line was closed at 21.30 from Monday to Thursday. In March 2011 construction works were started on additional structures and signalling equipment that the new line needed, including three new platforms at Charlbury, Ascott-under-Wychwood
Ascott-under-Wychwood and Honeybourne. Footbridges at Charlbury and Honeybourne as well as preparation for the upgrade of six Level Crossings.[4] The new double track section between Charlbury and Ascott re-opened on 6 June 2011; the line between Oxford and Moreton-in-Marsh having been closed during the previous nine days. The section between Moreton and Evesham reopened as double track on 22 August 2011 with the line closed for the preceding two weeks.[5] New station proposals[edit] There are proposals for new stations at Withington and Chipping Campden. A long-standing proposal for a new station at Worcestershire Parkway where the line crosses the Birmingham and Bristol Railway
Birmingham and Bristol Railway has now substantial funding. It is anticipated that the proposal will go to the Planning stage early 2015. The plans and proposals are now available on Worcestershire
Worcestershire County Council website and the public consultation period has begun.[6] Services[edit] As of 11 December 2011[update], the previous off peak weekday service continues: roughly an hourly service between London and Worcester. Due to constraints of the former single track, there are some two-hour gaps. These services are extensions of the half-hourly Oxford fast trains. Some of the former gaps have been partly filled by three additional trains as far as Moreton-in-Marsh (running through from/to London Paddington). During peak hours, both Oxford fast trains are extended to Worcester, giving a half-hourly service. Overall, about half the trains continue to/from Great Malvern and five trains a day continue to and from Hereford. There is also an additional commuter service to and from Oxford in the morning and evening, which additionally calls at the halts (their "Parliamentary" service, preventing their closure). The historic problem of some trains having to wait at passing loops, extending journey times, has been eliminated by the redoubling, although some still have to wait at Charlbury or Evesham. Due to short platforms, passengers alighting at stations except Shrub Hill, Oxford and Hereford should listen to onboard announcements telling them from which coaches they should alight. Normally this is from the 2–5 coaches at the country end of the train (further from the ticket barrier at London Paddington). History[edit] The line between Oxford and Worcester was built 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 Isambard Kingdom Brunel's 7 feet 1⁄4 inch (2,140 mm) broad gauge but delays, disputes and increasing costs led to its being completed as 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge.[citation needed] The first stage of the Worcester and Hereford Railway opened between Henwick
Henwick and Malvern Link on 25 July 1859. The bridge over the River Severn was approved for traffic the following year, and trains started running through from Malvern Link to Worcester Shrub Hill station on 17 May 1860. A short extension from Malvern Link to Malvern Wells opened on 25 May 1860. On 1 July 1860 the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway absorbed both the Worcester & Hereford Railway and the Newport, Abergavenny & Hereford Railway to form the West Midland Railway. On 13 September 1861 the final stage of the railway opened between Malvern Wells and Shelwick Junction. This junction is just north of Hereford station on the line between Hereford and Shrewsbury, and it finally created a through route between Worcester and Hereford.[7] The Great Western Railway
Great Western Railway took over the West Midland Railway
Midland Railway in 1863. The original tunnel through the ridge of the Malvern Hills, Colwall Tunnel, was completed in July 1860. However, the tunnel was unstable, and it was closed for short periods in 1861 and again in 1907 following rock falls. Eventually the GWR decided to build a new tunnel to the south of the existing one. This opened for traffic on 2 August 1926. The old tunnel was abandoned, and during the Second World War
Second World War it was used to store torpedoes.[8] Following serious floods, which washed parts of embankments away, the line was closed for about a fortnight during July and August 2007 for repairs. In 2007 some trains in the morning rush hour started at Abergavenny but this was discontinued from December 2008. Poetry[edit] The line features in two notable poems: "Adlestrop" by Edward Thomas and "Pershore Station, or A Liverish Journey First Class" by John Betjeman. Route detail[edit] Oxford to Charlbury[edit] After departing Oxford station, the Cotswold Line
Cotswold Line shares track with the Cherwell Valley Line
Cherwell Valley Line to Banbury. About 220 yards (200 m) north of the station, the line crosses the Sheepwash Channel
Sheepwash Channel which links the Castle Mill Stream
Castle Mill Stream and Oxford Canal
Oxford Canal with the River Thames.[9] Immediately east of the current line is a swing bridge over the channel which used to carry the London and North Western Railway's Buckinghamshire Railway line to its terminus at Oxford Rewley Road railway station.[10] The swing bridge is a listed building. The Rewley Road station building has been dismantled and re-erected at Buckinghamshire Railway Centre. The built up area east of the railway, visible across the Oxford Canal, is Jericho, a district which originated as lodgings outside the city walls where travellers could rest if they arrived after the gates were locked. The Eagle Ironworks of William Lucy & Co. was near the first road bridge over the track on Walton Well Road. After the bridge, the open area to the left is Port Meadow, a water meadow bordering the Thames with a Bronze Age
Bronze Age round barrow. The former LNWR Buckinghamshire Railway branches away to the north east. The section from Oxford to Bicester has been connected to the Chiltern Main Line by a new chord at Bicester, enabling through trains from Oxford to London Marylebone to run from September 2015. Proposals exist for re-opening the whole line and are included in the Draft Milton Keynes & South Midlands Sub-Regional Strategy, but there are many planning and funding matters to be resolved.[11] The line passes through Wolvercote. To the west, Lower Wolvercote
Wolvercote was a centre for paper making, mainly for the Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press from the 17th century until 1998 and is the site of Godstow
Godstow abbey, a Benedictine convent founded in the 12th century. The line passes under the viaduct carrying the A34 Oxford Western Bypass and 100 yards (91 m) further under the A40 road
A40 road linking London and Fishguard.

An HST leaving the Cotswold Line
Cotswold Line at Wolvercot Junction, about 3 miles (5 km) north of Oxford

The line now turns west; here the former Buckinghamshire Junction Railway link with the Buckinghamshire Railway used to converge from the east. About 4 miles (6.4 km) after Oxford station, Yarnton station was in the short stretch between here and where the Witney Railway diverged to the south-west.[12] So far, the line has been close to the River Thames
River Thames but the river now swings away to the south through a landscape dotted with gravel pits. The line now climbs the valley of the River Evenlode
River Evenlode repeatedly crossing and re-crossing the river. Hanborough station serves the villages of Long Hanborough, Church Hanborough, Freeland and Bladon. The Oxford Bus Museum
Oxford Bus Museum is next to Hanborough station.[13] From Hanborough the line enters the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and 1 mile (1.6 km) beyond Hanborough is Combe station. Building the line through Combe was difficult with several deep cuttings, four crossings of the Evenlode, and the diversion of a length of the river. To the south, just after the third river crossing are the remains of North Leigh Roman Villa. About 1 mile (1.6 km) beyond the villa the line crosses the course of Akeman Street
Akeman Street Roman road. The Oxfordshire Way
Oxfordshire Way long-distance footpath follows Akeman Street from the north east to a point about 0.6 miles (1 km) north of the railway before turning to run through Stonesfield
Stonesfield and meet the line at Charlbury station. The next station is Finstock. Between Finstock and Charlbury the deer park to the west of the line is Cornbury Park, original venue for the Cornbury Music Festival, which has now been replaced by the Wilderness Festival. The woodlands south west of the park are the remains of Wychwood Forest
Wychwood Forest named after the Hwicce, one of the Anglo-Saxon peoples of Britain. Charlbury station is the start of the redoubled track and is first stop for faster trains over the line and retains its original Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway clapperboard building. Sir Peter Parker lived nearby at Minster Lovell
Minster Lovell and was a regular user of Charlbury station while chairman of the British Railways Board (1976 to 1983). The patronage of the head of the organisation may have helped to save the line at a time when the Serpell Report was calling for more rail closures.[14] This is section of track has a maximum speed of 100 mph (160 km/h)[15] Charlbury to Moreton-in-Marsh[edit] The line is now heading south-west and the site of Ascot d'Oilly Castle is to the north-west as the train enters Ascott-under-Wychwood. Few trains call at Ascott-under-Wychwood
Ascott-under-Wychwood station, but there is a signal box controlling the level crossing and the points that were formerly the end of the single track section from Wolvercot Junction. 1.2 miles (1.9 km) beyond Ascott is Shipton station which serves the villages of Shipton-under-Wychwood, Milton-under-Wychwood
Milton-under-Wychwood and Fifield. Still following the Evenlode, the line now turns north-west. There is another level crossing near Bruern Abbey. The next junction on the line was at Kingham
Kingham from where the Banbury
Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway went west to Cheltenham via Stow-on-the-Wold and east to King's Sutton near Banbury. Kingham
Kingham village is north of the station. The village west of the station is Bledington. The Oxfordshire Way which has been close to the railway since Akeman Street
Akeman Street now turns west to Bourton-on-the-Water
Bourton-on-the-Water but it is replaced by another long distance footpath, the Diamond Way. At Moreton-in-Marsh the line crosses the course of another major Roman road, the Fosse Way
Fosse Way which linked Isca Dumnoniorum (Exeter) and Lindum Colonia
Lindum Colonia (Lincoln). Moreton-in-Marsh was the headquarters of the railway spot-hire company Cotswold Rail until the company moved to Gloucester. Moreton-in-Marsh to Hereford[edit]

A First Great Western Link
First Great Western Link Network Express Turbo unit at Evesham station on 19 September 2004, with a service for London Paddington

About 28 miles (45 km) after Oxford is Moreton-in-Marsh. This was once the southern end of the Stratford and Moreton Tramway. The line then passes the corner of the Roman town of Dorn.[16] The Cotswold Line leaves the Evenlode which drains into the Thames and enters the catchment of the River Severn. The first level crossing appears. The building west of the crossing is a brick works and the neighbouring pits were the site of Jurassic
Jurassic clay extraction for the works. The village to the north is Paxford. The large country house to the west is Northwick Park, former home of Edward Spencer-Churchill and site of a United States Army hospital during World War II
World War II and afterwards a centre for Polish refugees. The line the passes the site of Chipping Campden station, about 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Chipping Campden itself. From here the line goes into cutting, then the 887 yards (811 m) Campden Tunnel under the Cotswold escarpment. In 1851 unrest among the navvies building the tunnel resulted in a riot – the 'Battle of Campden Tunnel'.[17] The next station is Honeybourne. From 1905 until 1977 this was the junction with the GWR line between Cheltenham and Stratford-upon-Avon. The track to the north remains as a link to the large former military depot at Long Marston. There is a good business case for the restoration of the Stratford-Cotswolds link.[18] The large compound to the north with high walls, chapel, and floodlights is Long Lartin prison. There is another level crossing, where Littleton and Badsey station used to be. The line crosses the River Avon into Evesham. Opposite Evesham's Cotswold Line
Cotswold Line station is the former Midland Railway station, once on the Ashchurch & Barnt Green line. The line becomes single track again about 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Evesham and then crosses the River Avon again and follows it towards Pershore.

The site of Norton Junction
Norton Junction looking towards Oxford. The single tracked Cotswold Line
Cotswold Line branches off to the left, with the right hand branch linking to the Cross Country Route
Cross Country Route (southbound).

The line crosses over the Cross Country Route
Cross Country Route and then passes through Norton Junction
Norton Junction where there was formerly a station. The junction links the line to the Cross Country Route. Here double track starts. Where the two routes cross is where the proposed Worcester (Norton) Parkway station would be built. About 57 miles (92 km) after Oxford is Worcester Shrub Hill station. Here are connections to commuter lines going to Birmingham New Street. If Worcester (Norton) Parkway is built Shrub Hill station will be closed.[citation needed] Worcester Foregate Street station gives connections to the city centre and other lines to Birmingham. 6 miles (10 km) later the line reaches Malvern Link station. Great Malvern station follows, and 2 miles (3 km) later is the site of the former Malvern Wells station. After Malvern Wells the line enters the 1,584 yards (1,448 m) long Colwall New Tunnel. This is the second Colwall tunnel; the entrance to the original tunnel can be seen to the north. When the tunnel is below the ridge of the Malvern Hills, the line crosses the boundary between Worcestershire
Worcestershire and Herefordshire. The line reaches Colwall station, where The Coca-Cola Company plant (now demolished) next to the station used to bottle Malvern Water, a local mineral water. Next to the bridge carrying the B4218 road over the railway is an unusual five-sided cottage.[citation needed] When the railway was built one corner had to be demolished and replaced by a plain wall. After passing through another tunnel, Ledbury station is passed and Hereford station ends the journey on the line. Usage[edit] The busiest stations on this line are the city stations at Oxford, Worcester and Hereford, followed by Great Malvern. The busiest station served exclusively by Great Western Railway's Cotswold Line
Cotswold Line services is Charlbury, followed by Hanborough.[19]

Station usage

Station name 2002–03 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17

Oxford 3,648,550 3,956,477 4,076,814 4,540,878 4,712,647 5,080,934 5,427,286 5,797,984 6,226,478 6,309,582

Hanborough 69,997 75,976 70,562 76,580 83,976 105,290 104,050 119,210 137,454 172,684 201,284 243,568 271,496

Combe (Oxfordshire) 1,548 2,037 2,591 2,612 2,042 2,120 1,836 2,546 2,838 2,112

Finstock 1,799 1,055 1,297 1,157 1,095 1,022 1,458 1,984 1,982 1,970

Charlbury 229,000 236,749 232,040 249,781 239,426 238,918 231,582 244,586 253,202 271,738 287,778 305,284 327,518

Ascott-under-Wychwood 2,050 2,534 2,931 1,769 2,499 2,860 2,264 1,658 2,702 2,484

Shipton 5,057 6,231 5,513 5,389 3,914 3,032 2,890 3,614 4,680 5,028

Kingham 121,318 124,462 126,995 131,183 141,310 147,554 137,944 150,890 156,668 169,496

Moreton-in-Marsh 176,389 180,458 178,004 189,230 176,502 185,284 178,040 195,878 203,082 209,238 217,032 237,198 252,950

Honeybourne 18,691 22,077 27,752 34,281 33,127 37,350 35,052 41,446 41,834 47,788

Evesham 240,174 269,474 239,257 236,611 214,364 207,998 203,578 221,594 220,072 258,190 245,612 247,724 255,476

Pershore 50,949 53,154 62,522 61,739 61,971 62,472 58,744 67,230 73,000 89,546

Worcester Shrub Hill 1,225,757 1,355,790 202,708 592,756 625,971 761,666 856,196 747,595 780,168 891,844

Worcester Foregate Street 379,734 319,996 1,582,620 1,273,385 1,252,182 1,469,283 1,487,256 1,625,011 1,791,810 1,859,984

Malvern Link 165,820 179,091 201,091 216,790 227,141 235,748 249,898 261,792 267,522 278,592

Great Malvern 394,411 373,914 392,143 405,371 384,906 447,172 464,296 484,668 502,468 514,778

Colwall 43,788 40,574 44,596 51,392 56,384 56,528 63,062 61,356 66,110 63,374

Ledbury 133,968 130,403 135,033 147,496 162,588 180,136 184,340 189,308 193,952 185,588

Hereford 602,219 732,320 800,448 854,475 899,199 974,844 974,668 1,017,114 1,081,990 1,085,918

The annual passenger usage is based on sales of tickets in stated financial years from Office of Rail Regulation
Office of Rail Regulation statistics. The statistics are for passengers arriving and departing from each station and cover twelve month periods that start in April. Please note that methodology may vary year on year.

References[edit]

^ "Rules of the Plan" (PDF). Network Rail. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 September 2012.  ^ Crossley, William (4 April 2008). "Rail improvements on track". Oxford Mail.  ^ "North Cotswolds Line Improvements". FGW. Archived from the original on 7 May 2009. Retrieved 14 May 2009.  ^ "A better railway for the Cotswolds" (PDF). Network Rail. February 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 October 2012.  ^ Crossley, William (11 June 2010). " Cotswold Line
Cotswold Line rail improvements timetable unveiled". This is Oxfordshire.  ^ " Worcestershire
Worcestershire Parkway Regional Interchange" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 27 October 2014.  ^ Railway Magazine. July 1959.  Missing or empty title= (help)[full citation needed] ^ Railway Magazine. August 1959.  Missing or empty title= (help)[full citation needed] ^ " River Thames
River Thames (Sheepwash Channel)". CanalPlanAC. UK. Retrieved 15 September 2012.  ^ " Sheepwash Channel
Sheepwash Channel – Oxford Canal
Oxford Canal /River Thames". Movable Bridges in the British Isles. UK. Retrieved 15 September 2012.  ^ "Draft Milton Keynes & South Midlands Sub-Regional Strategy". Archived from the original on 23 April 2005.  ^ "Yarnton Junction". Archived from the original on 22 July 2004.  ^ "Home". Oxford Bus Museum.  ^ "Railway Finances - Report of a Committee chaired by Sir David Serpell KCB CMG OBE". Railways Archive.  ^ "Baseline Capacity - Western" (PDF). Network Rail. 31 March 2009. Retrieved 28 August 2014.  ^ "Romano-British Town: Dorn, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire". Roman Britain. Archived from the original on 4 February 2012.  ^ Coldicott, Fred. "The Battle of Campden (or Mickleton) Tunnel". Chipping Campden
Chipping Campden History. Archived from the original on 9 January 2016. Retrieved 16 July 2015.  ^ "Good business case for Stratford-Cotswolds link". Railnews. 22 October 2012. Retrieved 2 June 2014.  ^ "Station Usage". Rail Statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. 

Sources and further reading[edit]

Atterbury, Paul (1989). See Britain by Train. AA Publishing. pp. not cited. ISBN 0-86145-760-9.  Connolly, W. Philip (1976). British Railways Pre-Grouping Atlas and Gazetteer. Shepperton: Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN 0-7110-0320-3.  Dewick, Tony (2002). Complete Atlas of Railway Station Names. Hersham: Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN 0-7110-2798-6.  New Adlestrop Railway Atlas. Baxter, Ian (17–30 June 1998). "The Cotswold and Malvern Line: a bright future". RAIL. No. 333. EMAP Apex Publications. pp. 26–31. ISSN 0953-4563. OCLC 49953699. 

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