Jump to content

Yardley Wood railway station

Coordinates: 52°25′17″N 1°51′17″W / 52.421336°N 1.854740°W / 52.421336; -1.854740
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yardley Wood
National Rail
General information
LocationYardley Wood, Birmingham
England
Coordinates52°25′17″N 1°51′17″W / 52.421336°N 1.854740°W / 52.421336; -1.854740
Managed byWest Midlands Trains
Transit authorityTransport for West Midlands
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeYRD
Fare zone3
ClassificationDfT category E
History
Opened1908
Passengers
2018/19Increase 0.512 million
2019/20Increase 0.533 million
2020/21Decrease 0.104 million
2021/22Increase 0.255 million
2022/23Increase 0.302 million
Location
Map
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

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.

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

[edit]

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

[edit]

During Monday to Saturday daytimes:

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

Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
Hall Green   West Midlands Railway
North Warwickshire Line
  Shirley

References

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