Lapworth railway station

Lapworth
265px Lapworth station platforms.
Location
Place	Lapworth
Local authority	District of Warwick
Coordinates
Grid reference	SP187716
Operations
Station code	LPW
Managed by	Chiltern Railways
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	17,607
2005/06	18,960
2006/07	20,460
2007/08	19,918
2008/09	34,366
2009/10	33,406
2010/11	33,796
2011/12	35,976
2012/13	33,212
2013/14	32,728
2014/15	31,064
History
Original company	Great Western Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
1854	Opened as Kingswood
1 May 1902	Renamed Lapworth
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Lapworth from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Lapworth railway station serves the village of Kingswood, Warwickshire, near the village of Lapworth from which it takes its name. It has two platforms connected by a footbridge. Most trains are those provided by Chiltern on its London Marylebone/Leamington Spa/Birmingham Snow Hill/Kidderminster route, but these are augmented by a few London Midland services.

The station was opened by the Great Western Railway in 1854. It was known as Kingswood until 1 May 1902 when the name was changed to Lapworth to avoid confusion with the station of the same name in Surrey. From 1894, Lapworth was the starting point of a short lived branch line to Henley-in-Arden. The branch was closed as an economy measure during the First World War in 1915.

A footbridge spans the remaining two tracks, and continues to the west of the northbound platform spanning where quadruple tracks once existed. For a brief period prior to the lifting of the quadruple tracks there was a DMU service along what had been the GWR's Paddington - Birkenhead main line. It plied between Wellington (Shropshire) and Lapworth stopping at all the intermediate stations and linking them with Wolverhampton Low Level and Birmingham Snow Hill.

The station is unstaffed; ticketing is restricted to a 'Permit-to-Travel' machine located at the main entrance to the station (off Station Lane) at the north end of the London-bound (southbound) platform. The station can also be accessed via a footpath from Mill Lane.

Services

The station has a basic two-hourly service in each direction in the current timetable, provided by the Chiltern Railways Leamington Spa to Birmingham Moor Street service. In peak hours this is augmented by some additional London Midland services to/from Leamington, giving through links to Stourbridge Junction and Kidderminster, and during weekdays two trains a day go to Stratford-upon-Avon. On Sundays a two-hourly service operates, but with through services to and from London Marylebone.

External links

• Train times and station information for Lapworth railway station from National Rail
• Historical photographs of Lapworth station at warwickshirerailways.com
• Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands: Lapworth station

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Dorridge		London Midland Worcester - Leamington Spa		Hatton Limited Service
		London Midland Birmingham — Stratford via Solihull		Claverdon Limited Service
Dorridge		Chiltern Railways London-Birmingham		Hatton
	Disused railways
Terminus		Great Western Railway Birmingham and Henley in Arden Railway		Henley-in-Arden Line closed, station open