 This enabled all the Woodford Halse traffic to be diverted to the Honeybourne route, leaving only local goods services, and the Oxford-South Wales freight trains running over the Evesham-Ashchurch section.Broom station was closed on 1 October 1962, a few months after the line from Broom West to Broom East had closed on 1 July 1962.On 1 October 1962 the Alcester-Evesham section was closed temporarily to all traffic without warning, because of "the unsafe condition of the line".