 Honeybourne generated very little traffic of its own and the agricultural produce that it did handle was dwarfed by interchange returns.Traffic picked up during the Second World War when the station's geographical location at the crossroads of several routes meant that it was very busy.A new yard was opened at Honeybourne West Loop in 1960 to handle iron ore flows which were re-routed via the Stratford to Cheltenham line to relieve the Great Western Main Line.