The Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway opened a single track branch line from Honeybourne to Stratford on 12 July 1859.

The OW&WR became part of the Great Western Railway, which in 1908 upgraded the route into a double-track main line.

The Stratford on Avon and Broadway Railway Society was based at the former MoD depot, but in 2011 moved its stock elsewhere.

In 2014, it was announced that a volunteer-run working military railway would be created on the site of the former Ministry of Defence depot.

[4] In March 2015, it was reported that the project had collapsed and that the majority of the site would be redeveloped for housing, with sidings retained for the storage of London Underground District line stock for Vivarail's conversion into diesel multiple units.