Bromsgrove is the station at the bottom of the famous Lickey Incline in Worcestershire (between Barnt Green and Droitwich Spa). It is a stop on the Birmingham-Worcester Line and one of the termini of the Cross-City Line.
WMR 323 219 stands at Bromsgrove
Information
Type:
National Rail (Birmingham-Worcester Line & Cross-City Line)
Station code:
BMV
Opened:
1840
Platforms:
4
Bromsgrove was opened by the Birmingham & Gloucester Railway in 1840 and later operated by the Midland Railway who had a wagon works next to the station [1]. The station didn't get off to a good start, a few months after opening a steam locomotive exploded at the station killing the crew.
The station went into a long decline, in 1969 the station reduced to a single platform serving the (dwindling) number of trains stopping in both directions in peak hours only. The original station buildings were also removed [2]. A second platform was added in 1990.
In 2007 plans were made to build a new Bromsgrove station next to the old one (slightly more to the South). Although problems with funding and contaminated land delayed the building it finally opened in 2016. The new station has four platforms and since July 2018 has hosted Cross-City Line trains after electrification of the Lickey Incline.
