Ludlow railway station

Ludlow railway station serves the market town of Ludlow, in Shropshire, England. It lies on the Welsh Marches Line between to the north and Hereford to the south.

History

The station opened on 21 April 1852, as the southern terminus of the first section of the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway.Herbert Rake, The Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway, in the Railway Magazine, January 1908 Trains travelling to or from the south of the station pass through the short Ludlow Tunnel ( long), which passes under Gravel Hill and has its tunnel entrance immediately south of the platforms. Clee Hill Junction, from where a freight-only branch line ran to the quarries in the nearby Clee Hills, to the east of Ludlow, from 1864 to 1962,H C Casserley, Britain's Joint Lines, Ian Allan, Shepperton, 1968, 0 7110 0024 7, page 127E T MacDermot, History of the Great Western Railway: volume II: 1863 - 1921, published by the Great Western Railway, London, 1931 was situated 24 chains (about a quarter of a mile) to the north of the station.

The goods shed (on the former goods yard that closed in 1968) adjacent to the railway line to the north of Station Drive is now home to the Ludlow Brewery. It has been renovated and is open to the public, with information on local railway history.WhatPub.com (CAMRA) Railway Shed, Ludlow

Accidents and incidents At 3.15 am on 6 September 1956, a northbound parcels train, hauled by GWR 4300 Class 2-6-0 No. 9306, overran signals and ran into the rear of an express passenger train from to Manchester London Road carrying 150 passengers, but caused no deaths and only one serious shock casualty. The passenger train had halted because a lorry that had crashed into a level crossing at Onibury station had blocked the track.'Nostalgia' special report by Toby Neal.

Facilities

There are two platforms — platform 1 is the northbound platform (for Shrewsbury) and platform 2 is the southbound platform (for Hereford). There is level access to the ticket office and platform 1, the footbridge can now be reached by a recently installed lift from that platform. Level access to platform 2 is via a ramp down from Quarry Gardens, which also provides a ramp to the platform from the footbridge. A long path also provides a level access route that runs over the tunnel entrance between the platforms.

Facilities include an independently-run ticket office, where railway-related books and light refreshments are available to buy, car parking, small weatherproof platform shelters, and an accessible adapted toilet.

Passenger volume +Passenger Volume at Ludlow2004–052005–062006–072007–082008–092009–102010–112011–122012–132013–142014–152015–162016–172017–182018–192019–202020–212021–222022–23Entries and exits213,843224,250242,381272,381287,800270,682288,058292,734297,798287,350308,384299,776299,802300,742286,854266,09065,540199,780234,958Interchanges0000002993,6562,8452,5093,3953,2043,1852,9163,8781,9542971,638822 The statistics cover twelve month periods that start in April.

Services Passenger services are currently provided by Transport For Wales. The standard off-peak weekday service in trains per hour is:

1tph to , via Shrewsbury, and 1tph to , via Hereford and ; alternate services are extended to , , or 1tp2h to , via Shrewsbury and Chester 1tp2h to Cardiff Central, via Hereford and Newport.

Ludlow railway station

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