Hagley railway station

Hagley railway station serves the English village of Hagley, Worcestershire. Trains call in each direction, running to or through Kidderminster westwards and through Stourbridge and Birmingham Snow Hill eastwards. Customer Information Screens are installed on either platform.[1] All services are operated by West Midlands Trains.

Hagley
National Rail
General information
LocationHagley, Bromsgrove
England
Coordinates52.422°N 2.147°W / 52.422; -2.147
Grid referenceSO901805
Owned byNetwork Rail
Managed byWest Midlands Trains
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeHAG
ClassificationDfT category E
History
Original companyOxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway
Pre-groupingGreat Western Railway
Post-groupingGreat Western Railway
Key dates
1862 (1862)First appearance in timetables
Passengers
2017/18Increase 0.617 million
2018/19Decrease 0.525 million
2019/20Decrease 0.492 million
2020/21Decrease 0.278 million
2021/22Increase 0.300 million
Location
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail & Road

The station retains one of its Great Western Railway era station buildings and its canopied footbridge, both dating from 1884. Although typical of its era, very few examples of that kind of ornamental ironwork bridge now survive and it was listed grade 2 in 2000.[2] When it was refurbished in late 2011, the colours reverted from its former navy blue and white to the original GWR cream and salmon livery.[3] The footbridge was also used by Hornby as the basis for its 00 Gauge model.[4]

History

The original village of Hagley was a mile away uphill; when its station first appeared in timetables in 1862 as part of the Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway, it was a rough and ready structure with platforms built of old sleepers. With the line subsequently being taken over by the Great Western Railway, and the expansion of Lower Hagley along the nearby road to Worcester, there was a demand for a proper building with a station approach up to it.[5] Canopied brick buildings were constructed on either side of the line at this time. While the one on the Stourbridge side housed waiting rooms and toilets, on the Kidderminster and Station Drive side there was the stationmaster's office, the ticket office, and two more waiting rooms and toilets.

Under him the stationmaster had a booking clerk and three porters as well as someone to deliver parcels and personal luggage. There were also three signalmen at the box beyond the Brake Lane bridge and maintenance workers responsible for the track and embankments. The signal box has now gone while the building on the Stourbridge platform has been demolished and replaced with a metal shelter. In the former goods yard north of the station on Brake Lane were coal merchants and the offices responsible for dealing with livestock brought by train for sale at the Monday cattle market, which was located uphill in the old village (at the junction of the A491 and the A456). Where the sidings for coal trucks and the cattle pens used to be, there is now a private housing development named The Sidings after the site.[6]

Services

Off-peak West Midlands Railway services call half-hourly in each direction, running to Kidderminster westwards, with some services extending to Worcester (Foregate Street before 9pm and thereafter Shrub Hill (Mondays to Saturdays) and through Stourbridge and Birmingham Snow Hill eastwards. Additional trains (making the service 3tph or 4tph also call during the morning and evening peaks. A half hourly service runs in the late evenings and an hourly service on Sundays.[7][8]

From September 2002 until May 2023, Chiltern Railways peak-hour services from Kidderminster to London Marylebone called at Hagley.[9][10][11][12]

References
  1. "Hagley (HAG)". National Rail.
  2. "Hagley Station Footbridge". British Listed Buildings.
  3. "Hagley's' Hornby' railway footbridge restored". BBC News. 10 April 2012.
  4. "Hornby R9751 Hagley Footbridge". Hattons model railways.
  5. Parkes, Geoffrey. "History of Hagley" (PDF). Hagley Historical and Field Society.
  6. Pagett, Tom (1997). "An Introduction to the History of Hagley". Hagley Field and Historical Society. pp. 54–55.
  7. "Train timetables and schedules | Hagley". West Midlands Railway.
  8. "Train times | Snow Hill Lines - Worcester to Birmingham Snow Hill, Solihull and Stratford upon Avon | 21 May until 9 December 2023". West Midlands Railway.
  9. MP at launch of London train Worcester News 30 September 2002
  10. Passengers advised new train timetables imminent BBC News 5 May 2023
  11. Balancing enhancements with efficiency Modern Railways issue 896 May 2023 page 63
  12. Chiltern re-times trains to retain extra midweek peak capacity Rail issue 983 17 May 2023 page 10

Further reading
  • Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2007). Worcester to Birmingham. Middleton Press. figs. 45-48. ISBN 9781904474975. OCLC 263292710.
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