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
Bristol Cathedral it reopened as a cathedral under the secular clergy. In an edict dated June 1542, Henry VIII and Thomas Cranmer raised the building to rank of Cathedral of a new Diocese of Bristol. The new diocese was created from parts of the Diocese of Gloucester and the Diocese of Bath and Wells; Bristol had been, before the Reformation, and the erection of Gloucester diocese, part of the Diocese of Worcester. Paul Bush, (died 1558) a former royal household chaplain, was created the first Bishop of Bristol. The new cathedral was dedicated to the Holy and Undivided Trinity. In the 1831