Wootton Wawen is a stop on the "Shakespeare Line" (also known as the North Warwickshire Line) in Warwickshire between Henley-in-Arden and Wilmcote.
West Midlands Railway 172 334 departs for Stratford
Information
Type:
National Rail (Shakespeare Line)
Station code:
WWW
Opened:
1908
Platforms:
2
The station was opened in 1908 as Wootton Wawen Platform (which meant it had basic staffing and a parcels facility) by the Great Western Railway. It was renamed in 1974 [1]. The station was threatened with closure in the 1980s but managed to survive.
The station has two through roads on an embankment, platform access is via two ramps down to road level. It is served by the hourly service on the line, for a long time the station was a request stop, meaning that trains may not stop at the station unless a passenger on the train requested it to the guard (or held out their arm to an approaching train). However, recently West Midlands Railway have changed their timetable to always stop at the station.
The station is unstaffed and has basic facilities. Each platform has a single concrete shelter and there is a single information display per platform plus help points. The station is managed by West Midlands Railway.
View down the line
Station view from the road bridge (see in the background of the first photograph)
Station entrance
Ramp down to street level
Platform shelter
[1] Vic Mitchell and Keith Smith, Stratford-upon-Avon to Birmingham (Moor Street) (Middleton Press, 2006) p.41
