List of railway stations in the West Midlands

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This is a list of railway stations within the West Midlands, a metropolitan county in central England which includes the cities of Birmingham, Coventry and Wolverhampton. It includes all railway stations in the West Midlands that currently have regular timetabled train services, as well as certain stations outside the county which are within the area supported by Transport for West Midlands (TfWM), [a] formerly known as Centro. [b] Transport within the West Midlands is subsidised by TfWM, who since 2006 have used the brand name Network West Midlands to demonstrate the 'joined-up' nature of the regions bus and rail networks. [1] [2]

Contents

The West Midlands rail network is divided into five zones, centred on Birmingham city centre. [3] This is mainly for the purpose of defining season ticket boundaries. For example, a ticket valid in zones 1 and 2 can be used for travel between any station in those zones, but cannot be used to travel to zone 3 or beyond. The outside boundary is formed by the railway stations at Wolverhampton, Bloxwich North, Blake Street, Coventry, Dorridge, Earlswood, Longbridge, Stourbridge Junction and Stourbridge Town, inclusively. [4]

Stations

Birmingham New Street lies at the hub of the West Midland rail network. 2015-09-23 Birmingham New St Station.jpg
Birmingham New Street lies at the hub of the West Midland rail network.

The following table lists the name of each station, along with the year it first opened, the metropolitan district in which the station lies, and the zone in which it is situated. West Midlands Metro tram stops are not listed, except for locations which have an interchange with rail services. [5] The table also shows the train operating companies who currently serve each station, and the final three columns give information on the number of passengers using each station in recent years, as collated by the Office of Rail and Road, a government body. The figures are based on ticket sales. [6]

StationYear
opened
Metropolitan
borough [7] [c]
Zone [8] DfT category Served by [9] Station users
2021-22 [6]
Station users
2022-23 [6]
Station users
2023-24 [6]
Acocks Green 1852 [10] Birmingham 3E West Midlands Trains 0.272 million0.305 million0.372 million
Adderley Park 1860 [11] Birmingham2EWest Midlands Trains74,2560.120 million0.138 million
Aston 1854 [12] Birmingham2EWest Midlands Trains0.388 million0.555 million0.632 million
Berkswell 1884 [13] Solihull 5EWest Midlands Trains0.162 million0.222 million0.255 million
Bescot Stadium 1847 [14] Sandwell 4EWest Midlands Trains90,1640.134 million0.150 million
Birmingham International 1976 [15] Solihull5B Avanti West Coast
CrossCountry
Transport for Wales
West Midlands Trains
2.411 million4.185 million4.680 million
Birmingham Moor Street 1909 [16] Birmingham1B Chiltern Railways
West Midlands Trains
4.384 million5.526 million6.417 million
Birmingham New Street 1851 [17] Birmingham1AAvanti West Coast
CrossCountry
Transport for Wales
West Midlands Metro
West Midlands Trains
22.683 million30.726 million33.335 million
Birmingham Snow Hill 1852 [18] [d] Birmingham1C1Chiltern Railways
West Midlands Metro
West Midlands Trains
2.311 million2.718 million2.851 million
Blake Street 1884 [19] Birmingham5EWest Midlands Trains0.199 million0.264 million0.307 million
Bloxwich 1989 [20] Walsall 5F2West Midlands Trains60,32475,0460.102 million
Bloxwich North 1990 [20] Walsall5F2West Midlands Trains59,52677,7700.108 million
Bordesley 1855 [21] Birmingham2F2West Midlands Trains10,0389,08815,116
Bournville 1876 [22] Birmingham3DWest Midlands Trains0.511 million0.702 million0.862 million
Butlers Lane 1957 [23] Birmingham5EWest Midlands Trains0.116 million0.142 million0.168 million
Canley 1940 [24] Coventry 5EWest Midlands Trains0.258 million0.364 million0.430 million
Chester Road 1863 [25] Birmingham3EWest Midlands Trains0.390 million0.489 million0.593 million
Coseley 1852 [26] [e] Dudley 5EWest Midlands Trains0.374 million0.516 million0.483 million
Coventry 1838 [27] Coventry5BAvanti West Coast
CrossCountry
West Midlands Trains
4.636 million5.977 million6.471 million
Coventry Arena 2016 [28] Coventry5West Midlands Trains68,1340.108 million0.109 million
Cradley Heath 1863 [29] Sandwell5EChiltern Railways
West Midlands Trains
0.468 million0.539 million0.627 million
Dorridge 1852 [30] Solihull5EChiltern Railways
West Midlands Trains
0.465 million0.575 million0.668 million
Duddeston 1837 [31] Birmingham2EWest Midlands Trains0.242 million0.385 million0.382 million
Dudley Port 1852 [32] [f] Sandwell4EWest Midlands Trains0.247 million0.316 million0.358 million
Earlswood [a] 1908 [33] Solihull5F2West Midlands Trains22,24624,80427,844
Erdington 1862 [34] Birmingham3EWest Midlands Trains0.329 million0.397 million0.455 million
Five Ways 1885 [35] [g] Birmingham1DWest Midlands Trains1.171 million1.459 million1.385 million
Four Oaks 1884 [36] Birmingham5EWest Midlands Trains0.377 million0.498 million0.606 million
Gravelly Hill 1862 [37] Birmingham2EWest Midlands Trains0.279 million0.357 million0.384 million
Hall Green 1908 [38] Birmingham3EWest Midlands Trains0.218 million0.262 million0.302 million
Hampton-in-Arden 1837 [39] [h] Solihull5EWest Midlands Trains93,6600.131 million0.176 million
Hamstead 1862 [40] Birmingham3EWest Midlands Trains0.150 million0.178 million0.214 million
Jewellery Quarter 1995 [41] Birmingham1EChiltern Railways
West Midlands Metro
West Midlands Trains
0.284 million0.321 million0.399 million
Kings Norton 1849 [42] Birmingham3DWest Midlands Trains0.537 million0.676 million0.835 million
Langley Green 1885 [43] Sandwell3EChiltern Railways
West Midlands Trains
0.108 million0.121 million0.151 million
Lea Hall 1939 [44] Birmingham3EWest Midlands Trains0.260 million0.338 million0.410 million
Longbridge 1978 [45] [i] Birmingham4EWest Midlands Trains0.525 million0.686 million0.817 million
Lye 1863 [46] Dudley5EChiltern Railways
West Midlands Trains
49,79262,18873,912
Marston Green 1844 [47] Solihull4EWest Midlands Trains0.444 million0.576 million0.568 million
Northfield 1870 [48] Birmingham4EWest Midlands Trains0.392 million0.489 million0.576 million
Old Hill 1866 [49] Sandwell4EChiltern Railways
West Midlands Trains
97,8640.108 million0.135 million
Olton 1869 [50] Solihull4EChiltern Railways
West Midlands Trains
0.285 million0.343 million0.396 million
Perry Barr 1837 [51] Birmingham2EWest Midlands Trains30,3620.139 million0.176 million
Rowley Regis 1867 [52] Sandwell3EChiltern Railways
West Midlands Trains
0.649 million0.763 million0.886 million
Sandwell & Dudley 1852 [53] Sandwell4DAvanti West Coast
Transport for Wales
West Midlands Trains
0.605 million0.807 million0.878 million
Selly Oak 1876 [54] Birmingham2DWest Midlands Trains1.590 million1.995 million2.187 million
Shirley 1908 [55] Solihull4EWest Midlands Trains0.210 million0.247 million0.280 million
Small Heath 1863 [56] Birmingham2EWest Midlands Trains0.121 million0.144 million0.195 million
Smethwick Galton Bridge 1995 [57] Sandwell2EChiltern Railways
West Midlands Trains
0.500 million0.660 million0.705 million
Smethwick Rolfe Street 1852 [58] Sandwell2EWest Midlands Trains0.292 million0.402 million0.393 million
Solihull 1852 [59] Solihull4DChiltern Railways
West Midlands Trains
1.038 million1.341 million1.581 million
Spring Road 1908 [60] Birmingham3EWest Midlands Trains0.107 million0.121 million0.139 million
Stechford 1844 [61] Birmingham3EWest Midlands Trains0.234 million0.314 million0.377 million
Stourbridge Junction 1852 [62] Dudley5DChiltern Railways
West Midlands Trains
0.900 million1.093 million1.262 million
Stourbridge Town 1879 [63] [j] Dudley5EWest Midlands Trains0.264 million0.295 million0.346 million
Sutton Coldfield 1862 [64] [k] Birmingham4DWest Midlands Trains0.645 million0.805 million0.937 million
Tame Bridge Parkway 1990 [65] Sandwell4EWest Midlands Trains0.353 million0.505 million0.580 million
The Hawthorns 1931 [66] [l] Sandwell2EChiltern Railways
West Midlands Metro
West Midlands Trains
0.225 million0.266 million0.284 million
Tile Hill 1864 [20] Coventry5EWest Midlands Trains0.326 million0.428 million0.483 million
Tipton 1852 [67] Sandwell5EWest Midlands Trains0.220 million0.297 million0.329 million
Tyseley 1906 [68] Birmingham2EChiltern Railways
West Midlands Trains
0.124 million0.148 million0.198 million
University 1978 [69] Birmingham2DCrossCountry
West Midlands Trains
1.961 million2.633 million3.051 million
Walsall 1849 [70] [m] Walsall4DWest Midlands Trains0.804 million0.971 million1.148 million
Whitlocks End 1936 [71] Solihull4F2West Midlands Trains0.118 million0.147 million0.181 million
Widney Manor 1899 [72] Solihull4EChiltern Railways
West Midlands Trains
0.177 million0.241 million0.286 million
Witton 1876 [73] Birmingham2EWest Midlands Trains0.169 million0.191 million0.309 million
Wolverhampton 1852 [74] [n] Wolverhampton 5BAvanti West Coast
CrossCountry
Transport for Wales
West Midlands Metro
West Midlands Trains
3.453 million4.446 million4.771 million
Wylde Green 1862 [75] Birmingham4EWest Midlands Trains0.302 million0.389 million0.474 million
Wythall [a] 1908 [76] Bromsgrove 5EWest Midlands Trains46,34851,57058,554
Yardley Wood 1908 [77] Birmingham3EWest Midlands Trains0.255 million0.302 million0.352 million

See also

Footnotes

a Wythall is in Worcestershire, and Earlswood lies on the border between the West Midlands and Warwickshire, however they are within zone 5 of the Network West Midlands area. [3]
b Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) is the operating arm of the West Midlands Passenger Transport Authority (WMPTA) which sets policies and budgets for the executive. The WMPTA is a political body, made up of a number of councillors appointed from the seven West Midlands metropolitan borough councils. [78]
c
Numbered map of the seven metropolitan district councils
1: Wolverhampton
2: Dudley
3: Walsall
4: Sandwell
5: Birmingham
6: Solihull
7: Coventry WestMidlandsNumbered.png
Numbered map of the seven metropolitan district councils
1: Wolverhampton
2: Dudley
3: Walsall
4: Sandwell
5: Birmingham
6: Solihull
7: Coventry
d Birmingham Snow Hill was closed to passengers from 1972 to 1987. [18]
e Coseley was closed in 1902, and rebuilt approximately 400 metres away from its original site. [26]
f Two years previously, in 1850, a station was built nearby by the South Staffordshire line. When the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway built their station, they became known as Dudley Port Low Level, and Dudley Port High Level respectively. When the earlier station was closed to passengers in 1964, the High Level suffix was dropped from the surviving station. [32] [79]
g Five Ways was closed to passengers from 1944 to 1978. [35]
h Hampton-in-Arden was closed in 1884, and rebuilt approximately 400 metres away from its original site. [39]
i The present Longbridge is the second station to bear the name – the original stood some distance away on the now-closed branch to Halesowen from 1915 to 1964. [45] [80]
j Stourbridge Town was closed to passengers from 1915 to 1919. [63]
k Built by the London & North Western Railway, the station is the only survivor of the three stations that once served the town. Both Sutton Town and Sutton Park stations were opened in 1879 by the Midland Railway, and closed in 1924 and 1965 respectively. [64] [81] [82]
l The Hawthorns was closed to passengers from 1968 to 1995. [66]
m Two years earlier, in 1847, a temporary station had been built at Bridgeman Place. [70]
n In 1854 a second station was opened at Wolverhampton by the Great Western Railway. This became known as Wolverhampton Low Level, whilst the earlier London & North Western Railway station became known as Wolverhampton High Level. Wolverhampton Low Level was closed to passengers in 1972 and fully in 1981. The High Level station (now known as just Wolverhampton) remains open. [74] [83]

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