About after Oxford is Worcester Shrub Hill station. Here are connections to commuter lines going to . Worcester Foregate Street station gives connections to the city centre and other lines to Birmingham. later the line reaches Malvern Link station. Great Malvern station follows, and later is the site of the former Malvern Wells station. After Malvern Wells the line enters the long Colwall New Tunnel. This is the second Colwall tunnel; the entrance to the original tunnel can be seen to the north. When the tunnel is below the ridge of the Malvern Hills, the line crosses the boundary between Worcestershire and Herefordshire. The line reaches Colwall station, where The Coca-Cola Company plant (now demolished) next to the station used to bottle Malvern Water, a local mineral water. Next to the bridge carrying the B4218 road over the railway is an unusual five-sided cottage. When the railway was built one corner had to be demolished and replaced by a plain wall. After passing through another tunnel, Ledbury station is passed and Hereford station ends the journey on the line.