Polesworth is a stop on the West Coast Main Line in Warwickshire between
Atherstone and
Tamworth.
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View down the platform |
Information |
Type: |
National Rail
(West Coast Main Line) |
Station code: |
PSW |
Opened: |
1847 |
Platforms: |
1 |
The station was opened by the London North Western Railway in 1847 on what was then known as the Trent Valley Line. The line was originally double track but later quadrupled. The station had a goods yard and a fine Edwardian main station, the far cry from the bare bones station today.
Over the last few decades the station has been starved of services with platform 2 closed and the footbridge to it removed as the cost of replacing it did not justify the station traffic. The station now is served by just one Parliamentary service a day between
Northampton and
Crewe. No surprise therefore that the station is one of the least used in the country with just 186 passengers using it in 2019. There are proposals to close Polesworth and replace it with a new station called
Polesworth Parkway but this may not happen until the next decade.
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Station frontage, facilities are fairly basic! |
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The disused Platform 2 can be seen in the background |