Polesworth is a stop on the West Coast Main Line in Warwickshire between Atherstone and Tamworth.
 |
| LNWR 350 249 prepares to depart, the next train will be tomorrow! |
| 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 through Polesworth was originally double track but later quadrupled. Polesworth had a goods yard and a fine Edwardian main station, the far cry from the barest of bones station of 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 in one direction.
It is no surprise therefore that the station is one of the least used in the country with just 186 passengers using it in 2019. Facilities at the station are the most basic possible, there is a shelter but it is on the disused platform! 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.
 |
| View down the platform towards Atherstone |
 |
| The disused platform |
 |
| Station entrance, usually kept locked |
 |
| View down the platform towards Tamworth |
 |
| Station forecourt (such that it is!) |