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Worcester Shrub Hill

CRS Code WOS
Collected date 16/05/08

Worcester Shrub Hill sign

In sharp contrast to the crowded bustle of Worcester Foregate Street, Worcester Shrub Hill is both considerably larger and considerably emptier. The front of the station building, seen from a car park below:

Worcester Shrub Hill
front

A portico covers the entrance to the station building:

Worcester Shrub Hill front
portico

This long view along the front of the station building shows the portico:

Worcester Shrub Hill
from north end

The approach to the station from the south side:

Worcester Shrub Hill
approach

The rear of the station building seen from the opposite platform:

Worcester Shrub Hill rear

Platform 1 adjoins the rear of the station building, and has these two disused bays at its southern end:

Worcester Shrub Hill bays

At the northern end of the same platform what looks like it was once a bay has now become a car park:

Worcester Shrub Hill bay

Looking north along platform 1 towards the station buildings:

Worcester Shrub Hill
platforms looking north

Looking south along the line from the southern end of platform 1:

Worcester Shrub Hill looking
south

The signal box to the south of the station:

Worcester Shrub Hill signal
box

Looking north along the line towards the barrow crossing from the end of platform 1:

Worcester Shrub Hill looking
north

Disc style signals under the canopy on platform 1:

Worcester Shrub Hill
disc signals

Steps lead up from platform 1 to the footbridge for platforms 2 and 3:

Worcester Shrub Hill
steps

The current footbridge is newer than a second at the station, which is presumably older, and definitely out of use. Seen here from the new footbridge, looking north:

Worcester Shrub Hill
looking north from footbridge Worcester Shrub Hill old
footbridge

A hole in the old footbridge:

Worcester Shrub Hill
old footbridge hole

Looking south along the line from the new footbridge:

Worcester Shrub Hill
looking south from footbridge

The new footbridge takes you to platform 2b, via the steps just on the right of this picture:

Worcester Shrub Hill platform
2b

Under the canopy on platform 2b:

Worcester Shrub
Hill platform 2b under canopy

The southern end of platform 2 is platform 2a:

Worcester Shrub Hill
platform 2a

This old waiting room on platform 2 was being refurbished when we visited:

Worcester Shrub Hill
waiting room

A closer peek through a gap in the fencing:

Worcester
Shrub Hill waiting room refurbishment

Platform 3 is on the opposite face to platform 2, at the southern end:

Worcester Shrub Hill platform
3

Extensive sidings east of the station itself, seen from the northern end of platform 2:

Worcester Shrub Hill
sidings