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Worcester And Hereford Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![Ledbury looking to the tunnel.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7277.jpg "Ledbury")
![A Hymek brings a Hereford train from the single-line tunnel into Ledbury station in August 1963. This was originally Ledbury Junction : Ledbury Town was on the branch line to Newent and Gloucester. The latter branch ran daffodil-picking trains in the 1930's!<br><br>[John Thorn //08/1963]](/images/26000/26388.jpg "Ledbury")
![A DMU approaches Great Malvern from the Birmingham direction in 1988. Seen through the decorative stone parapet on the road bridge.<br><br>[Ken Strachan //1988]](/images/26000/26197.jpg "Great Malvern")
![A Birmingham-bound DMU spotted through the parapet of the road bridge at Great Malvern in 1988.<br><br>[Ken Strachan //1988]](/images/45000/45087.jpg "Great Malvern")
![150014 arrives at Ledbury on 18 July 1997, while 156410 waits for the single line before heading east.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 18/07/1997]](/images/37000/37422.jpg "Ledbury")
![A London bound 125 draws to a halt at Ledbury station in January 2010. Ledbury is a passing loop on the single track section from Hereford to Malvern.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 30/01/2010]](/images/27000/27582.jpg "Ledbury")
![On a very frosty day a local train heads west from Ledbury towards Hereford on the single track section.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 30/01/2010]](/images/27000/27601.jpg "Ledbury")
![Looking west to Hereford at the closed Ashperton station. There is still a station building to the left and is that the edge of the platform amongst the undergrowth?<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 31/01/2010]](/images/27000/27548.jpg "Ashperton")
![This elegant curved viaduct carries the line from Worcester Foregate Street station over the River Severn to Malvern and Hereford. The metal spans in the background resonate nicely - I could hear trains crossing them from my house 1.5 miles away!<br><br>[Ken Strachan 31/05/2010]](/images/30000/30385.jpg "Worcester")
![The viaduct on the right, between Foregate Street and Malvern, is familiar enough; but by peering through the foliage on the left, you may discern a lower level. This is the current end of the former Racecourse branch, where racehorses were sometimes delivered one van at a time. At least the accountants knew who the primary user was. The branch closed in 1964; the racecourse survives.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 31/05/2010]](/images/33000/33540.jpg "Worcester")
![The elegant waiting room and DDA-compliant ramp are both major improvements at Malvern Link, a station which previously had very basic facilities. Platform view in March 2015.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 30/03/2015]](/images/50000/50847.jpg "Malvern Link")
![<I>Nice day for it..</I> The driver and guard of a 170 heading for Birmingham on 18 April await the emergence of a Hereford service from the tunnel mouth just visible in the background. [see image 26388] for an earlier era. [Ref query 6946]<br><br>[Ken Strachan 18/04/2015]](/images/51000/51121.jpg "Ledbury")
![Scene at Malvern Link station, Worcestershire, on 1 May 2017, looking south towards the A449 road bridge. A London Midland Hereford - Birmingham New Street service is at the northbound plaform. [Ref query 1067] Notice the British Rail flag hanging somewhat limply (not Limpley) from the station master's house.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 01/05/2017]](/images/59000/59638.jpg "Malvern Link")
![The recently built, and traditionally styled, buildings at Malvern Link are a vast improvement on the previous, sadly run down facilities.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 01/05/2017]](/images/60000/60052.jpg "Malvern Link")
