Blakedown railway station

Blakedown
Blakedown
Location
Place	Blakedown
Local authority	Wyre Forest
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Operations
Station code	BKD
Managed by	London Midland
Platforms in use	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	28,311
2005/06 *	increase 40,636
2006/07 *	increase 53,365
2007/08 *	increase 61,109
2008/09 *	increase 70,946
History
1852 ? ?	Opened as Churchill Renamed Churchill and Blakedown Renamed to current name
National Rail - UK railway stations
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Blakedown from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Blakedown railway station serves the English village of Blakedown, Worcestershire. It was opened (as Churchill station) in 1852, and was later known as Churchill & Blakedown before adopting its current name (the signal box still uses the old name, as shown above).

File:Churchill & Blakedown Signal Box.jpg

The signal box

The station is unstaffed, with only a basic shelter on each platform. There is a level crossing immediately to the west of the platforms, and in the absence of a footbridge or subway this is also the only method for passengers to cross the tracks.

The platforms were lengthened in the 1990s to allow longer trains to call (see image- the hollow space and the white fence mark the extension). This is because Blakedown is within the Birmingham commuter band and usage increased.

Almost all trains serving Blakedown are operated by London Midland. As of the summer 2006 timetable, the only other operator's train to stop at the station is a single Chiltern Railways Kidderminster-London service which calls in the morning rush hour.

As of 2012, The level crossing gates and signalling has been changed to stop use of the Signal Box.

External links

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• Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands: Blakedown station

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Hagley		London Midland Leamington-Worcester		Kidderminster
Hagley		Chiltern Railways London-Kidderminster		Kidderminster

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