Blakedown railway station

Blakedown

Location
Place	Blakedown
Local authority	Wyre Forest
Grid reference	SO880787
Operations
Station code	BKD
Managed by	London Midland
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2010/11	76,114
2011/12	83,314
2012/13	83,008
2013/14	89,252
2014/15	91,698
History
1852 ? ?	Opened as Churchill Renamed Churchill and Blakedown Renamed to current name
National Rail – UK railway stations

* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Blakedown from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Blakedown railway station serves the English village of Blakedown, Worcestershire. It was opened (as Churchill station) in 1852, and was later known as Churchill & Blakedown before adopting its current name (the signal box still uses the old name, as shown above).

The signal box

The station is unstaffed, with only a basic shelter on each platform. There is a level crossing immediately to the west of the platforms, and in the absence of a footbridge or subway this is also the only method for passengers to cross the tracks.

The platforms were lengthened in the 1990s to allow longer trains to call (see image - the hollow space and the white fence mark the extension). This is because Blakedown is within the Birmingham commuter band and usage increased.

Since August 2012 the signalling system has been altered, with the former signal box having been abolished and control of the nearby crossing & signals transferred to the West Midlands SCC at Saltley.

Services

All trains serving Blakedown are now operated by London Midland. As of the summer 2006 timetable, the only other operator's train to stop at the station was a single Chiltern Railways Kidderminster-London service which called in the morning rush hour - this however no longer does so.

In 2016, trains run every 30 minutes each way, with off-peak trains terminating at Kidderminster westbound & eastbound services running alternately to Dorridge and Whitlocks End. Through services are available to both Worcester stations at peak periods. There is a two-hourly service from the station each way on Sundays, with through trains to and from Worcester.^[1]

The station in 1983

References

↑ Table 71 National Rail timetable, May 2016

External links

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Train times and station information for Blakedown railway station from National Rail
Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands: Blakedown station

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Hagley		London Midland Leamington-Worcester		Kidderminster
Hagley		Chiltern Railways London-Kidderminster		Kidderminster

Railway stations served by Chiltern Railways

Current	Acocks Green Amersham Aylesbury Aylesbury Vale Parkway Banbury Beaconsfield Bearley Bicester North Bicester Village Birmingham Moor Street Birmingham Snow Hill Blakedown Chalfont & Latimer Chorleywood Claverdon Cradley Heath Denham Denham Golf Club Dorridge Gerrards Cross Great Missenden Haddenham & Thame Parkway Hagley Harrow-on-the-Hill Hatton Heyford High Wycombe Islip Jewellery Quarter Kidderminster Kings Sutton Langley Green Lapworth Leamington Spa Little Kimble London Marylebone London Paddington Lye Monks Risborough Northolt Park Old Hill Olton Oxford Oxford Parkway Princes Risborough Rickmansworth Rowley Regis Saunderton Seer Green and Jordans Small Heath Smethwick Galton Bridge Solihull South Ruislip Stoke Mandeville Stourbridge Junction Stratford-upon-Avon Parkway Stratford-upon-Avon Sudbury & Harrow Road Sudbury Hill Harrow The Hawthorns Tackley Tyseley Warwick Warwick Parkway Wembley Stadium Wendover West Ruislip Widney Manor Wilmcote

Planned	Bletchley Milton Keynes Central Winslow

Rail transport in the United Kingdom

Transport in Worcestershire

Road

Motorways	M5 M42 M50

A-Roads	A38 A44 A46 A422 A435 A441 A442 A448 A449 A456 A491 A4025 A4536

Service Stations	Frankley services Hopwood Park services Strensham services

Other	Icknield Street List of settlements on the A38

Rail

Main lines	Cross-City Line Cross Country Route North Warwickshire Line Birmingham to Worcester via Bromsgrove Line Birmingham to Worcester via Kidderminster Line Cotswold Line

Closed lines	Oxford-Worcester-Wolverhampton Line (Dudley to Wolverhampton section)

Stations	Alvechurch Barnt Green Blakedown Bromsgrove Droitwich Spa Evesham Great Malvern Hagley Hartlebury Honeybourne Kidderminster Malvern Link Pershore Redditch Worcester Foregate Street Worcester Shrub Hill Wythall

Closed stations	Astwood Bank Aston-under-Hill Beckford Bengeworth Bredon Eckington Foley Park Halt Hinton Littleton and Badsey Malvern Wells Ripple Upton-on-Severn Wadborough

Heritage stations	Arley Bewdley Kidderminster Town Northwood Halt

Heritage Railways	Severn Valley Railway

Railway under construction	Broadway Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway

Buses

Routes	Worcestershire bus route 144

Companies	Diamond Bus First Midland Red

Other	Bus transport in Bromsgrove

Waterways

Rivers	River Arrow River Avon River Severn River Stour River Teme

Canals	Droitwich Canal Leominster Canal Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal Worcester and Birmingham Canal

Other	Diglis Basin Hampton Ferry Tardebigge Engine House Tardebigge Locks

Footpaths

Long-distance footpaths	Cotswold Way Monarch's Way Severn Way Worcestershire Way Wychavon Way

Cycle Paths

Railway stations in Worcestershire

Hereford to London:
Cotswold Line

Birmingham to Cardiff:

Birmingham to Worcester
via Bromsgrove:

Birmingham to Worcester
via Kidderminster:

Lichfield to Redditch:
Cross-City Line

Birmingham to Stratford-upon-Avon:

Wythall

Heritage railway stations

Gloucs-Warks Steam Railway

Broadway (Proposed)
Weston-sub-Edge (Proposed)
Honeybourne (Proposed)

Severn Valley Railway:

Arley
Northwood Halt
Bewdley
Kidderminster Town (adjacent to Kidderminster railway station)

Coordinates: 52°24′22″N 2°10′34″W / 52.406°N 2.176°W / 52.406; -2.176

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