Moreton-in-Marsh railway station serves the town of Moreton-in-Marsh in Gloucestershire, England; it is on the Cotswold Line between Kingham and Honeybourne.[1] The station and all passenger trains serving it are operated by Great Western Railway.
General information | |
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Location | Moreton-in-Marsh, Cotswold England |
Coordinates | 51°59′31″N 1°42′00″W / 51.992°N 1.700°W |
Grid reference | SP207326 |
Managed by | Great Western Railway |
Platforms | 2 |
Other information | |
Station code | MIM |
Classification | DfT category E |
History | |
Original company | Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway |
Pre-grouping | Great Western Railway |
Post-grouping | GWR |
Key dates | |
4 June 1853 | Station opened |
Passengers | |
2018/19 | 0.273 million |
2019/20 | 0.293 million |
2020/21 | 50,588 |
2021/22 | 0.200 million |
2022/23 | 0.269 million |
Location | |
Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
The station was opened by the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway (OWW) on 4 June 1853,[2] the day that the southern section of the OWW's main line, that between Evesham and Wolvercote Junction (just north of Oxford), was opened.[3] It was once the southern end of the Stratford-upon-Avon to Moreton tramway. It was a passing place on the largely single Cotswold Line, but, since the redoubling was completed in 2011, it is once again a station on normal double track. Between 2000 and 2010, it was the base of Cotswold Rail, a spot-hire company of shunting and mainline locomotives, which went into liquidation.
In August 2019, the direct Great Western train service from London Paddington station to the Moreton-in-Marsh railway station (code MIM) was expected to take under 2 hours.[4] The average time to get to the station from Birmingham was 2.75 hours.[5]
Several of the information and direction signs around the station are bilingual – in English and Japanese. This is for the benefit of tourists, as Japanese television promotes the Cotswolds as a holiday destination. They were the idea of station manager Teresa Ceesay, who had noticed the popularity of the town with Japanese tourists and that many asked for information at the station's ticket office. The cost of £350 was met by train operator First Great Western.[6]
Great Western Railway operate all services at Moreton-in-Marsh. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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Honeybourne | Great Western Railway Cotswold Line |
Kingham | ||
Historical railways | ||||
Blockley | Great Western Railway Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway |
Adlestrop | ||
Terminus | Stratford and Moreton Tramway | Stretton-on-Fosse | ||
Terminus | Shipston-on-Stour branch | Stretton-on-Fosse |
The station was used in the filming of the situation comedy Butterflies.