Diesel Multiple Units (DMU) at Worcester depot. Shrub Hill station is home to West Midlands Trains and Great Western Railway train crew depots. Also to the north of the station behind platform 2 & 3 is a goods yard. Services Worcester Shrub Hill is served by West Midlands Trains route from Worcester to Birmingham, via and . This line runs to Birmingham Snow Hill and , with many of the services on it continuing through to either or . There are also a limited number of trains via to Birmingham New Street that start or terminate or call here, mainly at peak times or in the early morning/late evening. Most through services between and New Street otherwise take the direct route between Foregate Street and Droitwich Spa to avoid the need for a reversal. Great Western Railway operates about an hourly service to and from London Paddington, the majority of which are via the Cotswold Line and Oxford. Other services to and from London operate via , the Gloucester/Swindon line (Golden Valley Line) and the Great Western Main Line via and . GWR run services southwards every two hours to Bristol Temple Meads via Cheltenham and Gloucester, which then mostly continue to either Weymouth or Southampton Central 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. Being the bigger of the two stations in Worcester, due to its sidings, Worcester Shrub Hill is often used as stabling point for goods trains and locomotives, as well as an overnight stop for some Great Western Railway rolling stock. Waiting room On Platform 2a is the former ladies' waiting room which extends onto the platform. It is a cast-iron frame cast at the Vulcan Iron Works at Worcester. This was a subsidiary of the MacKenzie and Holland signal manufacturing company about 200 yards from Worcester Shrub Hill station. The exterior is decorated with classical pilasters and covered with "majolica" ceramic tiles made by Maw and Company of Broseley. Maw was originally a Worcester company founded in 1850 when they bought the old Chamberlain tile factory. However, in 1852 they moved to Broseley to be nearer their source of clay.