Yardley_Wood_railway_station

Yardley Wood railway station

Yardley Wood railway station

Railway station in the West Midlands, England

Yardley Wood railway station serves the Yardley Wood area of Birmingham in the West Midlands of England. Located on the North Warwickshire Line, the station, and all trains serving it, are operated by West Midlands Trains.

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The station platforms are accessed by ramps from Highfield Road, which crosses over the railway on a bridge just north of the station. The ticket office is located at road level, adjacent to the bridge.[1]

History

The station was opened by the Great Western Railway (GWR) on 1 July 1908, along with the line, and was originally known as Yardley Wood Platform.... Platform being a GWR term for a station which was intermediate between a halt and a station in importance and facilities;[2][3] the suffix was later dropped. Unlike the previous and following stations on the line (Shirley and Hall Green) Yardley Wood was never provided with goods facilities.[1] Most of the original station buildings are still intact.[2]

The station staff houses for the Station Master and Sub-Station Master, built on Highfield Road by GWR in 1907, were in use until around the late 1970s but were sold off as private houses shortly after this time. They still stand next to the station on Highfield Road

Services

During Monday to Saturday daytimes:

On Sundays, there is an hourly train between Worcester, Birmingham, Shirley and Stratford-upon-Avon.[4]

More information Preceding station, National Rail ...

References

  1. [1]
    "Yardley Wood Platform". Warwickshire Railways. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  2. [2]
    "Yardley Wood". Rail around Birmingham & the West Midlands. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
  3. [3]
    "Spring Road Platform". Warwickshire Railways. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
  4. [4]
    Table 71 National Rail timetable, May 2016
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