The station at Pershore, located over a mile to the north of the town was opened by the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway in 1852. A typical Great Western Railway style station was built here complete with awning and covered footbridge. This station has been demolished and the line singled.
In 1941, a large RAF base was built just to the north of the line near to the village of Throckmorton. The base was used to train Canadian bomber crews of No.23 Operational Training Unit during World War Two. The flight crew from a Wellington bomber of No.23 O.T.U. that crashed in 1943 is buried in the nearby Pershore Cemetery. After the war the base had various military uses including a site for 'V' bombers equipped with nuclear weapons. The base continued in use until 1978. The Government caused much controversy in the locality by first burying the carcasses of animals slaughtered in the 2001 Foot and Mouth disease epidemic and then with a ridiculous proposal to build a large centre for asylum seekers on the old airfield site.
The following three photographs were taken by Andrew Smith on 12th July 2002:
A nice touch here is this replica station sign board erected in 2002 to commemorate 150 years of the railway at Pershore.
The line here was formerly double track and the remains of the former 'up' platform are still in situ.
The once prosperous goods yard is now just another derelict site.
The remote location for the station is graphically illustrated in the following extract from a 1930 Ordnance Survey map of the area that also shows the small stations at Wyre Halt and Fladbury.
