Kidderminster is a stop on the Birmingham-Worcester Line in Worcestershire between Blakedown and Hartlebury.
WMR 172 211 departs
Information
Type:
National Rail
(Worcester-Birmingham Line)
Station code:
KID
Opened:
1852
Platforms:
2
The station was opened by the Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway in 1852 as it extended from Worcester to Stourbridge. The station was later part of the West Midlands Railway and Great Western Railway. In 1878 Kidderminster was linked to the Severn Valley Railway. This line closed in 1963 though the SVR in preserved guise later built a new station called Kidderminster Town adjacent to the National Rail station. The former station goods sheds are now SVR buildings, one of them houses the Kidderminster Railway Museum [1].
The station has been rebuilt a number of times over the years. The longest lasting being a mock Tudor building served as the main station building from 1863 until 1968 when it had to be demolished due to dry rot [2]. The latest re-building took place in the Summer of 2020 with a new larger station building replacing the rather utilitarian previous one. Access between the two platforms is via a footbridge or via the road bridge.
The station is served by West Midlands Railway at least six times an hour, some trains from Birmingham Snow Hill terminating at Kidderminster. Chiltern Railway also operate services to London Marylebone during peak hours.
The new station building
The station has the usual basic platform facilities and bus shelters
Station sign
WMR 172 334 arrives with a Birmingham bound service
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Worcester to Birmingham (Middleton Press, 2007) Map. X
