Small Heath railway station

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Small Heath
National Rail
Small Heath Station - geograph.org.uk - 2128637.jpg
LocationSmall Heath, City of Birmingham
England
Coordinates52°27′47″N 1°51′29″W / 52.463°N 1.858°W / 52.463; -1.858Coordinates: 52°27′47″N 1°51′29″W / 52.463°N 1.858°W / 52.463; -1.858
Grid referenceSP096850
Managed byWest Midlands Trains
Transit authorityTransport for West Midlands
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeSMA
Fare zone2
ClassificationDfT category E
History
Opened1863
Passengers
2016/17Increase 132,678
2017/18Increase 148,520
2018/19Increase 176,792
2019/20Increase 203,572
2020/21Decrease 73,522
Location
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Small Heath railway station serves the areas of Small Heath and Sparkbrook in Birmingham, West Midlands, England. The station is managed by West Midlands Trains, which runs all the services.

The former Great Western Railway station building, opened in 1863 as Small Heath and Sparkbrook on their main line from London Paddington to Birkenhead Woodside, is on a bridge which it shares with Golden Hillock Road (the B4145), over the tracks. The A45 Small Heath Highway runs alongside. To the other side is the site of the former BSA factory. Nearby are the largely disused sidings which served local industry in the area.

The station once had four platforms (both in an island configuration) in use, following the quadrupling of the line by the Great Western Railway in 1906, but only the western pair are now operational (as these are the only ones that trains can use to reach Moor Street & Snow Hill).[1]

Services[]

Mondays to Saturdays, daytime service is generally two trains per hour outside peak times.

Northbound, there are two trains per hour to Birmingham Snow Hill. Most trains continue to Stourbridge Junction, Kidderminster or Worcester.[2]

Southbound, there is one train per hour to Dorridge via Solihull and one train per hour to Whitlocks End via Shirley. London Midland proposed the closure of the ticket office.[3] The request has been denied.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ "Small Heath railway station, Birmingham" Thompson, Nigel Geograph.org; Retrieved 12 October 2016
  2. ^ Table 71 National Rail timetable, May 2016
  3. ^ "Proposed changes to ticket office opening hours". Archived from the original on 11 August 2011. Retrieved 24 July 2011.
  4. ^ London Midland ticket office closure plans overruled BBC News article 17 September 2012

External links[]

Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
Bordesley or
Birmingham Moor Street 		  West Midlands Railway
Leamington Spa to Worcester
Birmingham to Stratford Line 		  Tyseley


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