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List of railway stations in the West Midlands

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]

Map of the West Midlands
Map of passenger railways in the West Midlands

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

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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]

Station Year
opened 		Metropolitan
borough[7][c] 		Zone[8] Served by[9] Station users
2019-20[6] 		Station users
2021-22[6] 		Station users
2022-23[6]
Acocks Green 1852[10] Birmingham 3 West Midlands Trains 0.551 million 0.272 million 0.305 million
Adderley Park 1860[11] Birmingham 2 West Midlands Trains 0.114 million 74,256 0.120 million
Aston 1854[12] Birmingham 2 West Midlands Trains 0.683 million 0.388 million 0.555 million
Berkswell 1884[13] Solihull 5 West Midlands Trains 0.334 million 0.162 million 0.222 million
Bescot Stadium 1847[14] Sandwell 4 West Midlands Trains 0.172 million 90,164 0.134 million
Birmingham International 1976[15] Solihull 5 Avanti West Coast
CrossCountry
Transport for Wales
West Midlands Trains 		6.520 million 2.411 million 4.185 million
Birmingham Moor Street 1909[16] Birmingham 1 Chiltern Railways
West Midlands Trains 		7.274 million 4.384 million 5.526 million
Birmingham New Street 1851[17] Birmingham 1 Avanti West Coast
CrossCountry
Transport for Wales
West Midlands Metro
West Midlands Trains 		46.511 million 22.683 million 30.726 million
Birmingham Snow Hill 1852[18][d] Birmingham 1 Chiltern Railways
West Midlands Metro
West Midlands Trains 		5.620 million 2.311 million 2.718 million
Blake Street 1884[19] Birmingham 5 West Midlands Trains 0.427 million 0.199 million 0.264 million
Bloxwich 1989[20] Walsall 5 West Midlands Trains 55,014 60,324 75,046
Bloxwich North 1990[20] Walsall 5 West Midlands Trains 55,878 59,526 77,770
Bordesley 1855[21] Birmingham 2 West Midlands Trains 24,180 10,038 9,088
Bournville 1876[22] Birmingham 3 West Midlands Trains 1.319 million 0.511 million 0.702 million
Butlers Lane 1957[23] Birmingham 5 West Midlands Trains 0.246 million 0.116 million 0.142 million
Canley 1940[24] Coventry 5 West Midlands Trains 0.370 million 0.258 million 0.364 million
Chester Road 1863[25] Birmingham 3 West Midlands Trains 1.050 million 0.390 million 0.489 million
Coseley 1852[26][e] Dudley 5 West Midlands Trains 0.551 million 0.374 million 0.516 million
Coventry 1838[27] Coventry 5 Avanti West Coast
CrossCountry
West Midlands Trains 		7.877 million 4.636 million 5.977 million
Coventry Arena 2016[28] Coventry 5 West Midlands Trains 0.122 million 68,134 0.108 million
Cradley Heath 1863[29] Sandwell 5 Chiltern Railways
West Midlands Trains 		0.872 million 0.468 million 0.539 million
Dorridge 1852[30] Solihull 5 Chiltern Railways
West Midlands Trains 		0.814 million 0.465 million 0.575 million
Duddeston 1837[31] Birmingham 2 West Midlands Trains 0.408 million 0.242 million 0.385 million
Dudley Port 1852[32][f] Sandwell 4 West Midlands Trains 0.525 million 0.247 million 0.316 million
Earlswood[a] 1908[33] Solihull 5 West Midlands Trains 31,512 22,246 24,804
Erdington 1862[34] Birmingham 3 West Midlands Trains 1.030 million 0.329 million 0.397 million
Five Ways 1885[35][g] Birmingham 1 West Midlands Trains 2.497 million 1.171 million 1.459 million
Four Oaks 1884[36] Birmingham 5 West Midlands Trains 0.805 million 0.377 million 0.498 million
Gravelly Hill 1862[37] Birmingham 2 West Midlands Trains 0.912 million 0.279 million 0.357 million
Hall Green 1908[38] Birmingham 3 West Midlands Trains 0.497 million 0.218 million 0.262 million
Hampton-in-Arden 1837[39][h] Solihull 5 West Midlands Trains 0.182 million 93,660 0.131 million
Hamstead 1862[40] Birmingham 3 West Midlands Trains 0.313 million 0.150 million 0.178 million
Jewellery Quarter 1995[41] Birmingham 1 Chiltern Railways
West Midlands Metro
West Midlands Trains 		0.539 million 0.284 million 0.321 million
Kings Norton 1849[42] Birmingham 3 West Midlands Trains 1.512 million 0.537 million 0.676 million
Langley Green 1885[43] Sandwell 3 Chiltern Railways
West Midlands Trains 		0.223 million 0.108 million 0.121 million
Lea Hall 1939[44] Birmingham 3 West Midlands Trains 0.652 million 0.260 million 0.338 million
Longbridge 1978[45][i] Birmingham 4 West Midlands Trains 1.029 million 0.525 million 0.686 million
Lye 1863[46] Dudley 5 Chiltern Railways
West Midlands Trains 		102,500 49,792 62,188
Marston Green 1844[47] Solihull 4 West Midlands Trains 0.847 million 0.444 million 0.576 million
Northfield 1870[48] Birmingham 4 West Midlands Trains 0.981 million 0.392 million 0.489 million
Old Hill 1866[49] Sandwell 4 Chiltern Railways
West Midlands Trains 		0.211 million 97,864 0.108 million
Olton 1869[50] Solihull 4 Chiltern Railways
West Midlands Trains 		0.564 million 0.285 million 0.343 million
Perry Barr 1837[51] Birmingham 2 West Midlands Trains 0.648 million 30,362 0.139 million
Rowley Regis 1867[52] Sandwell 3 Chiltern Railways
West Midlands Trains 		1.234 million 0.649 million 0.763 million
Sandwell & Dudley 1852[53] Sandwell 4 Avanti West Coast
Transport for Wales
West Midlands Trains 		1.052 million 0.605 million 0.807 million
Selly Oak 1876[54] Birmingham 2 West Midlands Trains 3.274 million 1.590 million 1.995 million
Shirley 1908[55] Solihull 4 West Midlands Trains 0.411 million 0.210 million 0.247 million
Small Heath 1863[56] Birmingham 2 West Midlands Trains 0.204 million 0.121 million 0.144 million
Smethwick Galton Bridge 1995[57] Sandwell 2 Chiltern Railways
West Midlands Trains 		0.869 million 0.500 million 0.660 million
Smethwick Rolfe Street 1852[58] Sandwell 2 West Midlands Trains 0.638 million 0.292 million 0.402 million
Solihull 1852[59] Solihull 4 Chiltern Railways
West Midlands Trains 		2.033 million 1.038 million 1.341 million
Spring Road 1908[60] Birmingham 3 West Midlands Trains 0.194 million 0.107 million 0.121 million
Stechford 1844[61] Birmingham 3 West Midlands Trains 0.541 million 0.234 million 0.314 million
Stourbridge Junction 1852[62] Dudley 5 Chiltern Railways
West Midlands Trains 		1.631 million 0.900 million 1.093 million
Stourbridge Town 1879[63][j] Dudley 5 West Midlands Trains 0.559 million 0.264 million 0.295 million
Sutton Coldfield 1862[64][k] Birmingham 4 West Midlands Trains 1.720 million 0.645 million 0.805 million
Tame Bridge Parkway 1990[65] Sandwell 4 West Midlands Trains 0.665 million 0.353 million 0.505 million
The Hawthorns 1931[66][l] Sandwell 2 Chiltern Railways
West Midlands Metro
West Midlands Trains 		0.509 million 0.225 million 0.266 million
Tile Hill 1864[20] Coventry 5 West Midlands Trains 0.679 million 0.326 million 0.428 million
Tipton 1852[67] Sandwell 5 West Midlands Trains 0.364 million 0.220 million 0.297 million
Tyseley 1906[68] Birmingham 2 Chiltern Railways
West Midlands Trains 		0.295 million 0.124 million 0.148 million
University 1978[69] Birmingham 2 CrossCountry
West Midlands Trains 		3.975 million 1.961 million 2.633 million
Walsall 1849[70][m] Walsall 4 West Midlands Trains 1.517 million 0.804 million 0.971 million
Whitlocks End 1936[71] Solihull 4 West Midlands Trains 0.174 million 0.118 million 0.147 million
Widney Manor 1899[72] Solihull 4 Chiltern Railways
West Midlands Trains 		0.465 million 0.177 million 0.241 million
Witton 1876[73] Birmingham 2 West Midlands Trains 0.328 million 0.169 million 0.191 million
Wolverhampton 1852[74][n] Wolverhampton 5 Avanti West Coast
CrossCountry
Transport for Wales
West Midlands Metro
West Midlands Trains 		5.123 million 3.453 million 4.446 million
Wylde Green 1862[75] Birmingham 4 West Midlands Trains 0.668 million 0.302 million 0.389 million
Wythall[a] 1908[76] Bromsgrove 5 West Midlands Trains 68,712 46,348 51,570
Yardley Wood 1908[77] Birmingham 3 West Midlands Trains 0.533 million 0.255 million 0.302 million

See also

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Footnotes

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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[7]
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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