Worcester Shrub Hill railway station which then mostly continue to either Weymouth or Brighton via . GWR also run services via Worcester Foregate Street to and Hereford from Oxford and London. West Midlands Trains's service between Worcester and Gloucester via Ashchurch and Cheltenham to complement the 2-hourly Great Western Railway service was discontinued at the start of the December 2009 railway timetable due to low passenger usage - however West Midlands Trains still operate a single service from Birmingham New Street to Gloucester on Friday nights, departing at 23:46. Being the bigger of the two stations in Worcester, due to its sidings, Worcester Shrub Hill
Worcester Cathedral three were involved in the BBC broadcast of the midnight and Christmas morning services in 2007, with the boys and the girls of the Cathedral Choir, respectively, taking the lead in the two services. Since the 18th century, Worcester Cathedral Choir has taken part in the Three Choirs Festival, the oldest music festival in the world. The composer Edward Elgar spent most of his life in Worcestershire. The first performance of the revised version of his Enigma Variations – the version usually performed – took place at the cathedral during the 1899 Three Choirs Festival. He is commemorated in a