Honeybourne railway station

Honeybourne
FGW 43164 leads a Paddington to Hereford service through Platform 1 in July 2013.
General information
Location	Honeybourne, Wychavon England
Coordinates	52°06′04″N 1°50′06″W / 52.101°N 1.835°W / 52.101; -1.835
Grid reference	SP114448
Managed by	Great Western Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	HYB
Classification	DfT category F2
History
Original company	Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
4 June 1853 (1853-06-04)	Opened
5 May 1969	Closed
22 May 1981	Reopened
Passengers
2018/19	66,612
2019/20	71,830
2020/21	16,280
2021/22	64,078
2022/23	85,768
Location
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Honeybourne railway station serves the village of Honeybourne in Worcestershire, England. Opened in 1853, it is on the Cotswold Line and was formerly a busy junction with five platform faces, also serving trains on the Great Western Railway's Honeybourne Line between Cheltenham Spa and Stratford-upon-Avon, which formed part of a strategic route between the West Midlands and the West of England.

The station was closed in 1969, after the withdrawal of stopping services to Stratford-upon Avon and closure to freight. The whole of the Stratford to Cheltenham line was closed in late August 1976, after derailment of some wagons on a goods train damaged a section of the track. Honeybourne was reopened in 1981, in connection with residential development near the station. The Heritage Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway have reopened the 14-mile section of the 22-mile-long Honeybourne Line, between Broadway and Cheltenham Racecourse, and hopes to extend its operations a further 5 miles, to Honeybourne, for which Network Rail has made passive provision.