Broadway railway station

Broadway railway station was a railway station that served the town of Broadway in Worcestershire, England. It was opened by the Great Western Railway in 1904 and closed to passengers in 1968. Today only the platform edgings remain with the track long gone.

(There was another Broadway opened by the GWR, in Dorset, but renamed Broadwey for a while, then Upwey)

Preservation and Future
The Gloucs-Warks Railway (G-WR) are rebuilding the five mile section of track up to the site of Broadway station. Tracklaying is anticipated to be completed during 2015, with the station itself reopening in 2016.

Since the original station buildings were demolished in the 1960s, the station will need to be reconstructed by the G-WR.

The GWR Broadway Area Group of the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway Trust started work clearing the derelict site in 2009 and have now rebuilt platform 1 and have started the reconstruction of platform 2 during March 2013. Plans have been drawn up for the construction of a signal box on platform 2, along with other associated station buildings. These plans have been submitted for planning approval and were approved recently, with work starting on the signal box early 2014, with platform two nearing completion. At a later date, a planning application will be submitted for car parking.

The section between the station site itself and Toddington has re-opened as far as the site of Laverton halt, however the station is still being reconstructed so it is expected to re-open around 2016 as long as the funds needed to complete the work are forthcoming.